Comments on: Atheist websites in Australia knocked off-line in a major cyber attack

By: Patrick Oden

Patrick Oden — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:35:42 +0000

So, are the anarchists now working for God to smite the web sites of unbelievers?

Or is this a new type of holy crusade by believers themselves?

By: rog

rog — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:21:42 +0000

@ tim

http://www.phpbb.com is quite handy too.

I do think that a forum would aid in creating an online community, it is one this to post on [excelent] blog articles – yet, free debate is something else, it may bring more people towards an ‘active point of view’, you never know.

By: rog

rog — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:33:29 +0000

@Barry

could this be an opportune moment to [re]suggest a bulletin board/forum; I mean if you are going to have to rework the comments section anyways?

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:18:53 +0000

Tim Danaher, vBulletin is not free actually, it costs a few hundred dollars.

Also, without going into a tirade about Anonymous vs Co$, that whole thing was about shits & giggles originally. I don’t like the comparison of the jovial pursuits of the headbangers at ebaumsworld and and these kind of cold and calculated attacks on free speech.

It would however be fun to see fundamentalist Christians running around covered in vaseline and pubic hair like Anon!

These shitheads probably hired out a botnet. It would be ironic if these attacks were coming from chinese or russian machines actually!

By: michael parks

michael parks — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:46:15 +0000

BTW – it wasn’t me. I love reading your websites. Dilbert is another site I love. So amusing.

By: michael parks

michael parks — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:45:03 +0000

Brilliant. And the proof behind this is……? Oh there isn’t any. Gosh. Lovin’ the justice. I thought you guys were all about proof. Nevermind. Carry on regardless. Could it have been anarchists? Secular Hackers? No, of course not. Presumeably all of the viruses spread on the internet are intended to target incompetent atheist websites too? Must have been meany Christians trying to spoil your freethinking fun!

By: Tim Danaher

Tim Danaher — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:01:52 +0000

Couldn’t a forum just be set up and linked to a thread for each blog entry? That’s what Brian Thompson does with his excellent ‘Amateur Scientist’ blog.

Forum software is available for free, and is pretty mature now — like vBulletin.

By: Barry Duke

Barry Duke — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:19:24 +0000

Of course you can!

By: Polprav

Polprav — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:22:06 +0000

Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?

By: Barry Duke

Barry Duke — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:46:17 +0000

Mikespeir, we have reverted to our original comments method, having been driven to despair by the clunky, unpredictable and intensely annoying Intense Debate method which we gave a trial. Until something better comes along, I guess we will stick with what we have.