So, there’s now less than 24 hours (in some parts of the globe) until Ronzilla is unleashed on an unsuspecting world. On the other hand, he could drag this out for another 45-90 days, or even longer. And over the past weeks I’ve watched as this thread has become more and more popular (over 500 unique visitors daily now) and thought about what to do next. On one hand, keeping up with reading the Weinland thread and moderating it to keep it reasonably on topic takes a lot of time. Plus, though blogging software like Wordpress is great, it was never designed to handle long, divergent, open-ended conversations.

On the other hand, I’ve unexpectedly seen a community of diverse and intelligent people come together— many of whom seem to appreciate this place, and some who are even transforming their lives in light of the open dialog here.

So, I can’t keep the conversation going just as it is indefinitely, and I don’t want to simply shut it down. Instead, I’ve decided to implement better technology and make the conversation even more open and diverse.

Click here to visit the newly-opened Ironwolf Forum!

I think this move will have many advantages:

• Interested people can discuss a wide range of topics in which I, your humble moderator, also share an interest. Believe it or not, my life is much bigger than Weinland.
• That said, Weinland has his own sub-board which can accommodate as many topic threads as members want to start. Click here to visit the Weinland board.
• The forum software is much better at handling long, open-ended threads.
• Members can start their own polls. (I already have the first poll going in the Weinland board.)
• I will ask some people I trust to share moderation privileges, easing my burden.
• Anyone can read anonymously, but I the forum requires an e-mail verified membership to post. This should make it easier to keep the trolls at bay.
• Within the broad topics of interest, members will be able to start topic threads on any particulars that interest them.
• The topics are paged, so no more huge waits for hundreds of comments to load before you can leave your own.
• I will be making enhancements to the forum to support Wikipedia and Biblical references similar to what we have here, and other exciting features as well.
• In general, the community can grow much larger, and (hopefully) positively affect even more people.

To sign up, visit the Register link near the top of the page, or just click here to visit it directly. If you have any trouble signing up for the forum, please e-mail me at ironwolf@dangerousgames.com . Once you’re signed up, you should read the Forum Help and the Forum Info & Announcements board, and ask questions about the fine points of membership in the Forum Help board.

I realize that many people here have never dealt with blogs before, much less web forums. It’s really not hard, and I want to make it easy and fun for you to participate. So don’t hesitate to e-mail me with questions.

It’s the end of this thread as we know it… and I feel fine.

Speaking of which, I wonder what Matthews is doing right now?

Oh! And don’t forget! A documentary crew is supposed to be filming Weinland while he’s over there! ROFL I bet they’re getting some good footage right about now…………

RW: “There! There! Did you hear that? Tell me you didn’t hear THAT.”

Documentary Crew: “Hear what?”

RW: “God has clearly not opened your mind.”

Can we say “No! No, your Jerusalem mission is supposed to increase over time! You get back over there until it does.”?

I expect that tomorrow when RW gets his concentrated mojo (and our shoes begin to increase) he will have all the answers. ALL of them. The word ‘perhaps’ should fall out of his vocabulary.