Nihil Obstat Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 [quote name='dUSt' date='05 June 2010 - 11:56 AM' timestamp='1275757000' post='2124106'] I think it would be hilarious to create a "Site review" section on phatmass and give CatholicCulture a yellow rating for "improperly rating phatmass as yellow". It would be our only site review. [/quote] DO IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 [quote name='dUSt' date='05 June 2010 - 12:56 PM' timestamp='1275757000' post='2124106'] I think it would be hilarious to create a "Site review" section on phatmass and give CatholicCulture a yellow rating for "improperly rating phatmass as yellow". It would be our only site review. [/quote] I've considered that before...you could make a Catholic Culture subphorum on the Lame Board...just to send a message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tridenteen Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 [quote name='dUSt' date='05 June 2010 - 11:56 AM' timestamp='1275757000' post='2124106'] I think it would be hilarious to create a "Site review" section on phatmass and give CatholicCulture a yellow rating for "improperly rating phatmass as yellow". It would be our only site review. [/quote] JMJ You could give it a red rating and say "Catholic Culture is an inspid imitation on a concerned Catholic website. Due to Catholic Culture's flagrantly liberal and loose religious morals, the good people of Phatmass should be especially careful when navigating the CC website." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Era Might Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 (edited) [quote name='1337 k4th0l1x0r' date='05 June 2010 - 12:56 PM' timestamp='1275756988' post='2124105'][/quote] Whoa. Haven't seen you in a long time. Welcome back! Edited June 5, 2010 by Era Might Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Trashing Catholic Culture is going a little overboard here. They are an outstanding website, and I for one have always appreciated their rating system. They have never once stated that they represent the Magisterium and everyone is completely free to ignore them completely or disagree with their assessment. I have made use of their website ratings numerous times in professional work to find examples of why various publishers and websites are unfaithful and should be avoided. Of course, I have to assess whether or not I agree with their rating first. Their resources are outstanding as a whole, even if not perfect, their site is well designed, and they seek to be completely faithful to the Church in every way, even "faithful to a fault", but I would prefer their err on the side of going overboard with orthodoxy than to call what really is unfaithful "faithful". The one weakness with Catholic Culture's rating of phatmass is that a website should be rated based on the actual publications of the organization. There rating is like rating fox news articles by the comments users post, or the Church by the pedophile priests in it. It is unfair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffpugh Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Not fair of them. We have our problems (such as blatant plus-one-ing silly posts, and people being snarky and getting offended way too easy... stuff that happens when we just see words on a screen), but we're not a yellow rating. Yellow meaning, "caution! Could be unhealthy", right? They are fail :thumbsdown: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1337 k4th0l1x0r Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 [quote name='Era Might' date='05 June 2010 - 01:06 PM' timestamp='1275757600' post='2124113'] Whoa. Haven't seen you in a long time. Welcome back! [/quote] It's funny. I was in the latest Bag of croutons thread at woot! and saw a poster called phatmass. That reminded me of the old days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zunshynn Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 [quote name='Brother Adam' date='05 June 2010 - 11:11 AM' timestamp='1275757889' post='2124115'] Trashing Catholic Culture is going a little overboard here. They are an outstanding website, and I for one have always appreciated their rating system. They have never once stated that they represent the Magisterium and everyone is completely free to ignore them completely or disagree with their assessment. I have made use of their website ratings numerous times in professional work to find examples of why various publishers and websites are unfaithful and should be avoided. Of course, I have to assess whether or not I agree with their rating first. Their resources are outstanding as a whole, even if not perfect, their site is well designed, and they seek to be completely faithful to the Church in every way, even "faithful to a fault", but I would prefer their err on the side of going overboard with orthodoxy than to call what really is unfaithful "faithful". The one weakness with Catholic Culture's rating of phatmass is that a website should be rated based on the actual publications of the organization. There rating is like rating fox news articles by the comments users post, or the Church by the pedophile priests in it. It is unfair. [/quote] I for one am not "trashing" Catholic Culture. I really have never been very impressed with their site, and I wouldn't recommend it to someone else. I mean that's great if you like it, and it's not like I would tell someone that enjoyed using it that they shouldn't. As for it "going overboard with orthodoxy"... maybe in a way but only to a pretty shallow extent, in my opinion. The fact that they based a review of a forum on two posts about movies that were obviously not even very long threads, if we can't even find them, kind of speaks for itself---pretty superficial if you ask me. I think it was a superficial review of Phatmass, and I think a lot of what they have on their own site is pretty superficial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 At least CatholicCulture did not quote someone like Damiano as an example of phorum posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisChildForever Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 I find the three "weaknesses" they listed to be SUPER strange. [quote] There are people in the forum who disagree with the Church and Her teachings. However, this is an apologetical site and there are also strong voices in Her defense. Further, the moderator is active and consistently corrects misunderstandings. (Fidelity) [/quote] I mean - what? Are the moderators supposed to ban every single non-Catholic who registers?? [quote] Inappropriate discussions in the Phorum (Fidelity) [/quote] What do they mean, "inappropriate"? Is discussing NFP "inappropriate"? The marital act? Homosexuality? Are we supposed to keep ourselves in the dark with such matters? John Paul II wrote an entire book on sex, if I am not mistaken, so I suppose they should just stamp him with "inappropriate discussions" too. [quote] Site tries to be too "relevant" allowing unedited comments on current movies (Fidelity)[/quote] Unedited comments? So when a person says they like or dislike a movie, such expression is wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 (edited) [quote name='HisChildForever' date='05 June 2010 - 11:44 AM' timestamp='1275759845' post='2124125'] [quote]Inappropriate discussions in the Phorum (Fidelity)[/quote] What do they mean, "inappropriate"? Is discussing NFP "inappropriate"? The marital act? Homosexuality? Are we supposed to keep ourselves in the dark with such matters? John Paul II wrote an entire book on sex, if I am not mistaken, so I suppose they should just stamp him with "inappropriate discussions" too.[/quote] This reminds me of what Cardinal Kasper said in my member title a while ago: "Bring back the Back Alley." Edited June 5, 2010 by Apotheoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 [quote name='Apotheoun' date='05 June 2010 - 12:49 PM' timestamp='1275760146' post='2124126'] This reminds me of what Cardinal Kasper said in my member title a while ago: "Bring back the Back Alley." [/quote] That Cardinal Kasper has something to say about everything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 [quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='05 June 2010 - 12:09 PM' timestamp='1275761342' post='2124131'] That Cardinal Kasper has something to say about everything! [/quote] He is quite busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Did anyone else notice how poorly written the two examples of posts from the Entertainment phorum were? No offense to the author intended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgnatiusofLoyola Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Apparently CatholicCulture doesn't think people "like me" should be allowed to post. It's a strange feeling. This, despite the fact that, to the best of my memory, in all my posts I have been respectful of Catholic beliefs and teachings. And, sometimes I'm nice, and once in awhile I'm funny. It seems to be a common misconception that anyone who isn't Catholic is against Catholicism--if someone wasn't against Catholicism then they would be a Catholic. But, people are so much more diverse and complicated than that. All non-Catholics can't be lumped together into one group. I liked dUSt's comment that, "[i]We allow these types of comments in an attempt to evangelize and dialogue with lukewarm and non-Catholics--with the mission of bringing them fully in line with a devout, orthodox, Catholic faith, in full communion with the Magisterium." [/i] The Catholic Church would welcome me at Mass, as long as I didn't take communion, and was not disruptive to others. Why would a Catholic forum have a more restrictive policy than the Church itself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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