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1 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21147 | ||
Dear Forumites, I think that there has been a slight frustration building for quite some time regarding our forum here. Reformer Joe has recently articulated it well. There are many threads which are either of minimal value (see Kalos' questionable question post), or which leave little room for discussion (like where is such-and-such). Then there are the neverending discussions on issues such as Calvinism vs. Arminianism (with the recent additionof Amyraldianism). While these are still threads that need to be addressed on the forum, I believe that some of the most regular members (especially who have been here for a while) could lose interest. I wonder if this partially explains a trend that I discovered while looking at the history of the forum. There are some members who have been here forever like Kalos, Charis, and Hank. However, there are also many people who are very active and supportive for a time and then just kind of disappear. Some of these RCScroll, RElderCascade, Brent Douglass, Xapis, Heir of God, KBurgee, Melchizedekau, Reformedreader, Jim, InHzsvc, and GMsmith101. And there's also our most prolific poster Nolan Keck, who has been on sabatical for over a month. I think that it is worth addressing to discover a way that we could continue to improve the forum so that people will want to stay. Their experience and valuable input is sorely missed when they leave. What does everyone think? For those of you who have been here a long time, do you remember why some people left? Why have you stayed? Are people really frustrated, or do I interpret Reformer Joe and others incorrectly? |
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2 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21159 | ||
Dear Forumites, I have one idea that I think might help keep things fresh for long term members of our forum, while at the same time add significant value to this forum's usefulness. My idea is that individual members of the Forum could each volunteer to be responsible for one book of the Bible. Then over the next few months, they could each go through that book thouroughly adding comments and questions as they arise. This would help fill the void of so many verses that just haven't come up on their own. It would make a much more complete study aid for people looking for answers. And it would probably bring up a myriad of new thoughts and discussion topics that haven't been covered. I just think that we've been too REACTIVE on the forum so far, mainly responding to others questions and comments. Perhaps we should be more PROACTIVE by doing more complete and thorough Bible commentating. What does everybody think about this idea? Would anyone be willing to volunteer to take a book? |
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3 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 21177 | ||
Dear Sir Pent: First off, thank you so very much for your kind and heart-warming remarks that you made about me in another post..... And I have a few for you, too. Your untiring efforts to improve the forum have not by any means gone unnoticed and are commendable indeed. You have an active and fertile mind and I'm pleased that you are directing it in efforts to bring this forum to a higher level of competence. I like your use of the terms REACTIVE and PROACTIVE in connection with conduct of the forum. By very definition, I think, it's easier and demands a lower level of effort and creativity to react to someone else's ideas than it does to proact, which requires that we come up with fresh new ideas of our own. I feel that one of the major factors that serves to drag this forum down into the swamp is the never-ending salvos of REACTIVE personal insults, name-callings, and general displays of disrespect and even disdain for one another. Another nemesis of equal or greater concern is the perpetual and perservering habit of straying far, far away from true Bible study -- the avowed purpose of this forum -- into the never-never land of pure speculation and fantasy. Questions continue to be posed on subjects the Bible knows nothing of, and answers continue to be rendered that have no more to do with what God's word teaches than polar bears do with the Equator...... Sir Pent, I think your idea of Bible study by books, assigning each active user a particular book, is a worthy one, but is it do-able? The logistics seem, at first blush, virtually insurmountable. I just don't see how it would work on a forum such as this, although I wish it could. Long before you came aboard there was much, much discussion on ways and means that might be employed to improve the forum. Some good fruit may have been harvested from these efforts, but I must be realistic and add, but not much. That is not to say that we should cease trying nor in any manner to dissuade you and others from the good and honorable pursuit of excellence. One final note, the most important one, indeed must be that the most powerful help for the good of this forum will come, not as we stand at our drawing boards or sit at our desks with our hands flying across our keyboards, but as we kneel upon our knees in prayer. --Hank | ||||||