I concur with Samarkis. Avalon is an asset. By putting attention on communicating with each other while that much is possible. With the goal of meeting and working with them in the real world. This is where the strength is and should be a main part of our action. That's where the focus is most productive. The internet is the tool to meet people. We don't own this forum we don't moderate it. We don't create the rules. But our asset is the ability to communicate and post things. The strength whatever valid information we can get out of it.
Instead of getting distracted by arguments in the thread about nothing. It is a good idea to link as many different forums up as possible as was mentioned that either we do own or that have different people in charge of it. The best thing is if one has their own forum. The more in charge the better. Not junky forums. Aware forums of the future. The more links the better for us. But also the quality of the forums and relevant links.
Here is a few I have known for some time.
www.michaeltsarion.com
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/
The idea is the more you can connect things up. The more you can unify. The more people you can meet and unify, the faster we can be successful by working together to create something constructive that empowers.
If each person creates one decent link. Preferably forums. Even if you start your own site. We can gather all the links up together. And give that as a resource to people.
If the establishment starts integrating filters. Atleast then we may be able to salvage a few sites from our links. For all we know this site could be shut down tommorow. The more diverse and spead out our networking, the more difficult it is to kill and block.
Now I don't know how effective google is to finding anything. But I suspect organiztions like this are inhibiting unification of the internet much more than they are unifying it. This is in their best interest to do that because they are profit based. They are part of the establishment. It cannot possibly have your interest at heart.
So for sure these organizations are trying to shut us up and divide us. That's the strategy. To impress on us their version of the world that they want. They are counting on us not being leaders and not taking this action. They are backwards because it's profit based. Not only does the establishment want to centralize forums but physically making the internet impossible to access is another part of their strategy.
While we can access it, this should be a main part of our strategy. To link everything up as much as possible. Make things easy.