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Wake up Matthew. You pride yourself in running the "biggest and bestest" Trad forum, but the way you measure your forum's success is not the way God measures success. Allow me to paraphrase St. Thomas a Kempis:

It is vanity to run a big forum, and to care little about it being a good forum.

Samuel

1. Is this your real final post, or is it like your previous "final post", or the "final post" before that one?
Also, I never said "biggest and bestest". Your use of quotation marks seems to claim that I did. That is false.

2. CathInfo happens to be both a big forum AND a good forum. I just hold different opinions re: how a Catholic forum should be run.
Just because a forum is large doesn't necessarily mean it's bad OR good. Same goes for a tiny forum. Most non-Catholic cults have a pretty small membership; does that mean they are the faithful remnant?

3. Wanting to ban all your opposition, or those with opinions that differ from your own, is indeed "the easy way out" and that is not always the highest path!

4. Just because I disagree with your personal opinions or personal standards (about forum moderation) does NOT mean I am asleep and/or offending God.

I'm only offending YOU and my eyes are quite wide open.

I've read a lot of Catholic literature, and nowhere have I ever seen it said that it's sinful to allow "sedevacantists" on an Internet message board. Has the Church ever ruled on this? I doubt it!

My point is that it's a matter of prudence. You have no law (sitting above both of us) which allows you to condemn me. All you can say is that my personal opinion contradicts your personal opinion.

"Big deal!" I say.

Samuel is hardly an impartial observer in this matter; he is quite involved in the Resistance with media sites of his own. He has run his own forum (ABL3.0) which never got beyond 120 or so members. In other words, he would LOVE to own a forum the size of CathInfo so he could spend one day banning all the sedevacantists and others who disagree with him. I'm sure it would be very cathartic for him. But he would be left with ABL 3.0 again (as far as forum size). hahaha

He also has started other website endeavors, but because of his temperament (etc.) he gets discouraged and gives up on them, or at least wants to.

I make it look easy by running the same forum, under the same structure, rules and management for TWELVE YEARS and counting. But the fact is that most websites don't last. The owners lose interest, get busy, get discouraged at how long it takes to build up traffic, or they get frustrated at the number one challenge of running a Trad forum: having to deal with so many flawed TRAD CATHOLICS.