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I was a member of CF for more than 20 years, serving both as general membership and on staff. Over time, the community became like a family to me—imperfect at times, but meaningful nonetheless. I valued the thoughtful debate and engagement that took place across many of the forums. I later joined the moderation team, where I assisted in drafting several Statements of Faith and served two terms as a Chaplain. During my tenure on staff, I gained firsthand insight into how reports were managed. It was during this period that I became concerned about what appeared to be inconsistent and, at times, targeted enforcement practices. On one occasion, a Supervisor (Hark!) was reported seven times within two days by the same individual. According to established policy, repeated reporting of that nature should have resulted in a warning for misuse of the reporting system. Instead, disciplinary action was directed toward Hark!, and all moderators were temporarily restricted from posting for 30 days. Additionally, there appeared to be a coordinated effort behind the scenes to remove Hark! from staff. That effort was ultimately unsuccessful due to significant internal discussion and the intervention of other staff members, including Hammster, who identified what he believed to be clear bias in the process. Subsequently, however, Hammster—who was serving as a Site Advisor—was himself removed following a staff campaign initiated by the same Advisor, and without any apparent avenue for recourse. This experience left a lasting impression on me regarding the importance of consistent policy application, transparency, and accountability in leadership structures. I left just recently because this same Advisor refused to stop a racist trope, I stated why it was offensive and it was summarily dismissed.

A New Owner took over sometime in 2023, so bad reviews before then do not apply. I found the site over-moderated, more concerned with providing safe spaces for a dwindling number of users, than permitting real debate. I teased a moderator in a private direct message his claim to running a spiritual war forum was a Saturday Night Live parody, with chickens clucking sound track and I was banned for months!

Got my third strike. So no more access. Christian is a loose term here. They cater to many religious groups. There are some good sections for people needing advice or who have depression, and such. The advice there can be good. There are groups that you cannot post anything but questions in unless you are of that group. That's fine. But they don't allow you to block them out and they post those limited group posts for all to see as news. Why? Why would I want to see something that I disagree with or cannot challenge? Makes no sense. There are a lot of very immature posters there. That is expected. But they belittle, indirectly attack, spend all day posting accusations at you, etc. (SoulX and Daq). They are the ones that run the place with their reporting of you. So it is a bit like Hockey. The instigator is rarely addressed. So rudest and mostjuvenile pretty much rule the roost there. When you are reported. There is never a comment about things being addressed with the opposite party. Not response to what you were responding to. Like it has no bearing. Even good parents explain that they are addressing this with both you and your sister. Is it too much to address the name-calling, accusations, rudeness, and indirect insults made by the other party? So you have no idea what occurs. I don't personally care for that. Because I am not going to go back and report tit for tat. I have zero interest in that game. People make blanket statements that all must believe and accept, such as Sex is only for procreation. That you are either jealous or full of lust if you need to have sex for pleasure. That is OK for them to state. That is permitted. But replying that there is no scripture for that and that they are the ones with the depraved mind elling me what I'm thinking and what I'm doing and where my thoughts are, gets you reported. And striked. There is a conservative group led by a Mod that is not particularly mature and likes to play word games and belittle you as well. He thinks he has won something. Very passive-aggressive. Avoid. In short. Don't get too interested or too involved. keep your posts to one or two and done and just move on. Staying escalates with the other side. And when you are not shy. You are the reported one.

As most here have noted, this is not a place for a true follower of the Lord. Saints should not compromise on their beliefs and this board caters to atheists as well as heretics, apostates and other CINOs (Christians in Name Only). As well, I only learned this was a money-making venture after joining and participating for a little while. So no surprise to learn here and elsewhere who all is behind the whole enterprise. The saints should not be made merchandise of and should never go against their Lord and Master which one has to do to get along here. It’s sad because there are many genuine Christians and very nice people here. I suspect many of them aren’t even aware of how bad things are particularly if they don’t participate in certain threads, especially in the forums open to non-Christians. Would that there was a virtual place for the saints to congregate in spirit and in truth.

I operated purely on Worthy. I can't hold the site in complete distaste. Being a newer Christian, I wanted to explore various concepts and read the Bible first, before I ever stepped through any church door. Idea being to shop around. You never buy a used car without having the know how on how to spot deficiencies, so church should be the same. Thus I joined Worthy, as a way to see multiple viewpoints and learn. In this sense, I did learn and there were many helpful individuals on the site whom I have no issue with. I was there for years, after all, and acquired a fair few member points under my name (essentially when people like your post). I was never too high up, however. My issue instead is with staff and a few practices from members. I had noticed a number of views being expressed over the years that stood out as uncommon among the rest. These were interesting to me as, in my view, we were all just trying to seek truth and differing ideas are helpful in that. However, these people would often be labelled. Their names would receive different colors, and I took notice that their posting would be restricted and often had people dogpiling on them. The staff were rather self-interested in this respect. It's a lot less that you're invited to discussion, you're invited to listen and only continue if you start repeating what they say. Another peculiar annoyance were all of the domestic abuse or adultery posts. Women wanting help with an abusive husband, or a husband who is actively cheating on her. The overwhelming response by the users is to just "live by example". Take it quietly and do your duty as a wife, pray and perhaps he will mend his ways. No. That's not how it works. You're erasing these victims and thinking only of their others. Nobody deserves to be treated poorly. I bit my tongue initially on these posts, but I eventually broke my silence. Thus began the various silencing of my voice. This was not the only topic either; I'd try to speak out on various things I disagreed with. You see, they'll deny it, but they will put you in time out if they feel you've got out of step. I think the amount of points I had saved me a few times. Especially when I decided to simply give up on the site. You see, this back and forth had been going on for months. I'd just be silenced. I'd not get a warning from staff, there was no communication. I'd just have to sit, unable to post for a few days, I believe in the hope that I would "learn my place". That said, contention here came down to the fact that the site has no "Delete Account" button. You have to ask a mod. So I did so. I asked multiple mods. Put in multiple tickets. All asking, as politely as possible, to delete my account. Nothing. I dont know if they wanted me to continue as I once did or something, but all I was ever met with was silence. After a few weeks of this? I took it to the open forums themselves, to force their hand. I posted a thread explaining that I'd like to leave, and the lack of response on mods part. It only lasted a few minutes before being deleted by a mod. So I made another thread stating that if they wanted to play hardball, I'll give them a deadline to delete my account or else I'd start posting offensive & vulgar things. Not right to do by any means, but I'll admit to have become angry at this point. Deleted. Not only that, but they deleted my entire comment history. However, leaving my account intact. They still didn't delete me, for some reason. This lead to a number of days where I was either able to post something vulgar onto someone's thread, or I was put under "your posts will need to be approved by a mod". I was attempting to jostle the mods, but in that, I exposed a number of people to a lot of vile things. People who were not involved and did not deserve that treatment from me; To anyone who knows me for this incident, I apologize. Unless you're WCF staff. Then you deserved so much more. After 3 days, they relented and deleted my account in full. The extra star is purely for the learning experience and the few lovely people on the site whom I had no issue with. I however cannot and do not recommend anyone to join this site. The only fellowship you'll find is either a rod or a chain.

I joined the site around 7 years ago, but now have been banned. Seems that the mods don't even abide by the many rules that they themselves create, which makes it impossible for regular members to abide by them. Simply challenge a claim made by a member about Covid, and you get a warning for denying the pandemic, which is against the rules. Explain yourself to the moderator that you weren't denying the pandemic, and they change the accusation to something that you weren't even accused of. And yes, just like KarateCowboy said in the previous review (and who I often spoke to on the site before he too was banned), it was the moderator named FreeinChrist who was the unreasonable one. To be fair, there were other Christians on the site that would offer uplifting and helpful advice when asked. One disappointment though is that every single thread--even ones simply talking about theology--turned into a debate that went off track. It made me wonder if even Christians could ever talk about anything without it turning into a fight. Naturally, the political threads turned into a fight each and every time. But the theology threads should certainly remain civil. There always seemed to be certain members that had to appear on every thread to turn every topic into a heated debate. Even more disappointing is that the mods allowed some of the biggest offenders to remain active even after being reported a dozen times or more for clear violations of site rules while I was banned for practically nothing. It seems to me that the troublemakers were welcome to remain active as long as they were causing problems for Christian members, even though mocking, goading, flaming and other disrespectful behavior was supposedly against the rules. I used to find the site rather addictive and it was a bummer to get banned. However, reading the reviews of others here gives me more of a feeling of liberation. So, thank you to all the reviewers here for that.

I was on the site before it was sold and after Paul Kim is said to own it now. Don't have a clue who that is which means nothing lol. I watched 1/2 truths being posted almost daily. Seems if its about.. well yeah. The site has changed. You are told where you can go and can't and thats even if someone is crying out in a post for help and you try.. your a believer.. you know the lord Jesus Christ and the power of prayer yet.. your post gets deleted because in that forum only Chaplin can help. You think praise GOD! Seems maybe they are just really working hard and can't get to every one like they would like. Praise GOD for PM! For me it was things being posted almost daily from one person still can see his posts on the left. Easy to find its always positive about the left and negative about the right. Whats wrong with that? Nothing just ever time ..yes every time you search on that post that story you find.. well why did he leave out this part? Not about polices.. just never expected hate. I expected believers to talk debate get upset sure.. but NEVER make it personal. For me just to much can be said and no accountability. I only post this because I just looked today and ... posts still.. It just got to negative for me. Were one body..Christ alone is the head yet its so divided there. The hate thats still there for one man..should NOT BE!

very stressful .