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Meg,
I don't have his direct contact. It's a shame that even Voris has liberals in his organization. I wonder if he knows.

I got the impression that Voris' employee - who answers the emails - is quite young, and doesn't understand tradition very well. He said that he'd discussed the issue of transgenderism with Vox for several hours on the phone. Sheesh! It may be the case, too, where Vox was very persuasive - even some trads are fooled into thinking that her views on transgenderism can be reconciled with tradition.

I did, however, send the links to Vox's site where she proclaims that she loves drag queens, and which also shows her interest in studying medieval astrology, and using tarot and the I ching. Voris' employee said that he would ask her about this, since he was concerned about it. I haven't heard back since then. I think that Voris is astute enough to know a fake trad when he sees one - but his employee - not so much.

This is the ONLY reason it bothers me that Fisheaters is so "big". The fact that she is more likely (the only one likely?) to get interviewed by a media outlet, since she owns and runs Fisheaters.

Numbers are always a siren song for any "leader", whether it's the owner of a small Catholic forum, or the Superior General of an international pious union.

Numbers are kind of like money, actually. A person can want money to buy a functional car for their family of 10 -- or they can want something base and worldly like a vacation.

I noticed something very interesting.

Here is a link to the stats (pageviews, new posts, new topics, new members, etc. on a monthly basis):

http://catholicforum.fisheaters.com/index.php?action=stats

What I'm really paying attention to is the column of new posts.  You'll see that beginning in May of 2009, going all the way to March of 2013, FE was getting more than ten thousand (and averaging, at a cursory glance, probably fifteen thousand) new posts per month.  There is one anomaly in that stretch of March 2012, though I think that can be explained easily by Lent.  

After March of 2013, there is a marked decline (spanning seven months, until now) in new posts.  Definitely not an anomaly, but a clear trend.  What happened in March of 2013?  Well, I know that's when I was banned.  But that's when Francis was elected.  Is that also when Impy "came out?"  In any event, when April 2013 rolled around, FE was on a clear down trend and has continued thus.

Now, the actual page views have not suffered, though I think that can easily be owed to FE being discussed here often over the last six months.

Because allowing only anti SV posts is soooooo a debate.