Fisheaters shutting down?

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I can totally understand getting tired of running a forum after a certain amount of time. It’s a pretty thankless job and you have to deal with a lot of people who complain and want to tell you how to run your business.

Plus, anything gets old after a few years and it’s natural to want to go do something else.
 
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FOG said:
My fear too. Everyday, CAF becomes more a platform for American Politics than Catholic Theology…which could eventually jeopardize its existence.
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I don’t even look at those sections.

Their existence filters that stuff from the Catholic sections; they are pressure escape valves that let the rest of the site work . . .

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And yet as we get closer to the US election, it will start spilling over into other areas of the forums. It’s already started.
 
Neithan said:
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CAF is a shell of what it once was.
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Why?
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Discussions here used to be far more robust and far less incestuous. Nowadays the same relatively small pool of people participate. There are other reasons, as well, but let’s just stick with that.
 
hmmm. Don’t really know the site but…why did she say CAF is good for Protestant and not Catholics? And why does she list her country as Kekistan which is a meme associated with white nationalist trolling and the alt right fandom world?

Does she really not know why her site is ‘on the nose’?
 
Wait, you’ve been here for 15 years and don’t see a difference in today’s CAF?
 
By the way, her recent tweets seem to be in much more chipper spirits!

https://twitter.com/FishEaters?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^embeddedtimeline|twterm^profile%3AFishEaters&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fisheaters.com%2Fforums%2Fshowthread.php%3Ftid%3D84494%26page%3D2

I have to repeat one of the responses she received: I had no idea she added content!!!

I checked her website once… 6 years ago. I read everything there was (then), like I did with most websites. If she had an easy to navigate page that showed new content I’d probably check more frequently. God bless her either way.
 
gracepoole said:
Wait, you’ve been here for 15 years and don’t see a difference in today’s CAF?
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I’ve “only” been here about 12 years, and it seems very different to me. I took about a year off because of the… let’s call them “differences.” I am now back but don’t post as much as I used to. I continue to hope that the conversations evolve back to being more meaningful.
 
I don’t know if someone already mentioned it, but Vox responded on the forum stating that she has decided to keep the site going. My experience there is that it is not nearly as negative or toxic as has been reported elsewhere, and is in fact a great resource for the faith. The dozens upon dozens of articles on the main page alone make the site worth it, even if one were never to venture over to the forums.
 
I’m glad she’s keeping it open. Perhaps she didn’t realize how many are helped by the site. Maybe if more people let her know how they felt, she wouldn’t have felt so discouraged and won’t in the future.

Yes, while we shouldn’t need it, sometimes we all need to know that we and our efforts are appreciated.
 
I’m really glad she decided to keep the place open for now, and from what she said maybe she should bring others to run the site alongside her, due to some technical issues and the longevity of the forum.

But I would also like to say a couple of words to some of you here:
Judgments by the Moderators can be discussed with the Moderators via private messaging but not on the board itself. If you display any disrespect, contention, or hostility towards a Moderator, Administrator or Catholic Answers your account will be suspended. Decisions of the Moderators may be appealed to the Administrator.
This happened with me before for doing exactly what you’re doing now, so I advise you not to do it.
 
I hadn’t realized she’s been posting new material. She has no “what’s new” section, no RSS feed, and the articles she’s written are categorized topically not chronologically so it wasn’t clear to me anyone was even paying attention to the site anymore. I stopped visiting it years ago due to this! She should really consider having a blog or something that at least alerts you to new material. That would keep her relevant among all the big names in Traddom.
 
MagdalenaRita said:
if someone was looking for a forum to talk with other Catholics and get good Catholic information I would not direct them here to the forum. Answers are all over the place.
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I’ll agree answers can be all over the place, but you get to where you trust some posters and I’ve gotten a lot of helpful feedback here when I needed to ask something of my fellow Catholics.
 
MagdalenaRita said:
if someone was looking for a forum to talk with other Catholics and get good Catholic information I would not direct them here to the forum. Answers are all over the place.
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Where would you direct them? Aside from the Catechism?
 
This being a discussion forum, that also includes non-Catholics, of course answers are going to be “all over the place”.

Generally if it is a matter where the Church has clearly spoken, there is a good consensus or a number of responsible posters who step in and present a unified view. Also, I have noticed that those who repeatedly push a view at odds with Catholic teaching do tend to get suspended.

There are, however, many matters where the Church has not definitively spoken or allows for individual perspectives, such as the evolutionism vs. creationism debate. Also a lot of topics, such as women covering their heads at church, where people have many individual opinions and this is also permitted by the Church. I personally think it’s good for people to see that there are a lot of opinions on these types of matters and that the Church allows different opinions. Too many Catholic forums are more like a monolith. If you don’t agree with a prevailing view of whoever is running the forum, you’re wrong, even though the Church isn’t teaching the prevailing view, it’s just the opinion of the forum operator and a majority of the posters. I choose not to participate in those sorts of forums.
 
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