MormonTimes article on the origins of FAIR

[_cinepro]

I know no one here would want to miss this...

Mormons strive to make the Internet FAIR

[_Jason Bourne]

Hmmm

There seems to be some conspicuous missing information. The biggest is why is Daryl Barksdale not mentioned. If I recall he was the founder of FAIR and I think Gordon and Reynolds somehow ousted him at some point.

[_Scottie]

It's still about making things fair.

WHAT???

Julieann is the first to tell you that MDB is NOT fair!! That they have an open bias towards apologists and you WILL be treated differently if you are a critic. Wow. How did that make it into print?

[_Dr. Shades]

HOLY COW, what an unmitigated train wreck.

From the article:

In the mid-1990s, Juliann Reynolds, Scott Gordon and other Mormons were under constant danger of losing their Internet provider privileges if they attempted to defend The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

They navigated the rough-and-tumble world of America Online message boards, places where people could post comments on various topics such as religion. AOL used volunteers to monitor comments. These volunteers could give out warnings for what they considered poor behavior. Three warnings and a person could be banned.

Three warnings? That's exactly three more than MA&D gives. They have nothing to complain about.

"It was just ugly. Very hateful," Reynolds said. "It was very discriminatory. They were pretty much allowed to run all over us and there wasn't much we could do about it."

"Just ugly?" "Very hateful?" "Very discriminatory?" Sounds like such an environment was right up her alley, considering how hard she's worked to duplicate it.

FAIR was born out of the confrontational world of message-board combat, where critics lobbed their bombs and defenders launched their rockets. As more people came to FAIR for information, many weren't interested in a contentious exchange. Although successful, the message board confused those who just wanted answers and information they could trust.

And it was the Mormons themselves who confused those who just wanted answers and information they could trust. How many times have sincere questioners been hounded off the board amid shouts of "you anti-Mormon liar!"?

The small group of Mormons under siege on the Internet has come a long way. The defenders moved out of their isolated community and embraced a larger Internet world.

LOL!! "Moved out of their isolated community??" More like "Worked hard to create their own isolated community!"

"I'm really pleased with how we made that change," Reynolds said, "and we don't engage in any direct confrontations. We're just trying to take information that we see out there that we think is incorrect … and respond to it."

What bizarro alternate universe is she living in?

It's still about making things fair.

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

[_TAK]

Quote:
"I'm really pleased with how we made that change," Reynolds said, "and we don't engage in any direct confrontations. We're just trying to take information that we see out there that we think is incorrect … and respond to it."

LMAO! She must have Pahoran on ignore..

[_Some Schmo]

Wow... they've read so much whitewashed Mormon history, they got writing it down to a science.

[_Yoda]

"I'm really pleased with how we made that change," Reynolds said, "and we don't engage in any direct confrontations. We're just trying to take information that we see out there that we think is incorrect … and respond to it."

Oh. My. God.

[_richardMdBorn]

Was there a reference to ZLMB which I missed? Talk about leaving out important details. Well, at least they didn't assert that Timation was 2D.

[_EAllusion]

I think Juliann is lying through her teeth her rather than being delusional. It's Ok. It's for Jesus.

[_moksha]

Not in the hoped for silk teddy, but at least it's blue!