What makes a "Quality Apostate Website"?

by ILoveTTATT 9 Replies latest jw friends

  • ILoveTTATT
    ILoveTTATT

    Hi!

    I would like everyone's opinion on this:

    What makes a "quality" apostate website? What makes it bad quality?

    IMHO, quality websites are www.jwfacts.com, www.ajwrb.org (I am sure there are dozens of others but you get the idea).

    They are quality websites because they present things that are easily verifiable, such as many quotations from WTS literature, they talk about many subjects with a writing style that is not "agressive", and they don't present ideas that are extremely hard to verify either way (such as conspiracy theories, a certain drawing in the WTS literature being an extreme case of looking into things too much), etc...

    Perhaps like Alexa (a worldwide website ranking system) there could be an apostate website ranking system or something...

    If you know of other-language apostate websites and their qualities (I am interested in Spanish primarily), please let me know. I have noticed that there are some really good Spanish websites but the topics are scattered all over (i.e. SOME have the addition of the name Jehovah to the NT, most don't, but the one that has this has very little other info)...

    Can you tell me:

    When you first started researching TTATT,

    What was your FIRST IMPRESSION of non-JW websites?

    What Wikipedia articles were important to you to know TTATT? (For me, lots... Destruction of Jerusalem, Tetragrammaton, etc)

    What other external sources did you use to know TTATT?

    What words/topics were you searching for that first led you, perhaps even unknowingly, to an apostate website? (This is important for me since I want to compare topical search and what websites come up, both in English and Spanish)...

    Thanks!!

    ILTTATT

  • slimboyfat
    slimboyfat

    Good quality articles on interesting subjects such as you get at Freeminds and Jwfacts.

    "Watchtower Information Service" used to be a top quality website too, but it's fallen into disrepair.

    For dramatic effect, however, nothing could quite beat the old "Watchtower Observer" website with the big eye staring out at you. Who remembers that?

  • Aunt Fancy
    Aunt Fancy

    When I was just starting to wake up I read a number of books and then found C of C and if I am correct he mentioned some websites. Books were an eye opener for me but then once I found JWN, JWfacts, JW Sruggle, JWsurvey Freedom of Mind and a few others they really put things together and filled in the blanks.

  • ILoveTTATT
    ILoveTTATT

    Aunt fancy, can you explain a little more? What books were you reading? What did you Google in order to find JWN, JWfacts, etc?

    Slimboy: I will check those other ones and notice the styles and quality! Thanks!

    ILTTATT

  • ABibleStudent
    ABibleStudent

    The websites that I like have the following:

    • A balanced approach at presenting information. Does not use a lot of adjectives and adverbs to sway readers' opinions.
    • Reference as much information as possible and uses hyperlinks to open a new browser window so that readers can easily verify information.
    • Present independent and reputable information to support their perspective. A website can wreck its reputation in my opinion if it does not vete its sources.
    • Presents information in mutiple languages. Even if information is not available from original sources in the language of a webpage, diisplaying accurate translations with scans of the original text is an acceptable approach.
    • Present information in a focused manner. Writing style should not be rambling.
    • Uses good grammer and writing style, such as using short sentences and paragraphs. Run on sentences and one paragraph articles are dificult to understand and to scan for information.
    • Easy to use and common sense navigation through the website.

    Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

    Robert

  • nonjwspouse
    nonjwspouse
  • ILoveTTATT
    ILoveTTATT

    Key questions to help other language groups:

    Is the "Holy Trinity" of "getting-out-of-Watchtower" books available in Spanish? Hassan, CoC, ISoCF? I know for sure CoC is in Spanish

    What keywords direct you to the website? Is the variety of topics good enough so that, no matter what is searched related to JW's, your website comes up?

    A big search string for me was "Jerusalem 607 BCE" when I first started.

  • ABibleStudent
    ABibleStudent

    Hi ILoveTTATT, Do an internet search for "HTML Meta Tags" to learn how web browsers search for infomation and how websites are ranked. You can add a lot of keywords as Meta tags that do not appear on a webpage. The higher a websites ranking the more likely that the website will be displayed on the first page of a web search.

    Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

    Robert

  • cantleave
    cantleave

    - one that states facts

    - one that doesn't promulgate conspiracies

    - one doesn't go about subliminal images in magazines

    - one that promote any particular religious view

  • disfellowshipped1
    disfellowshipped1

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