Is there a change in the UHJ internet agency policies?

I\'ve observed that the number of discussions that Baha\'is have with their opponents have sharply decreased in the past few years, on the other hand many forums have popped up dedicated to internal discussions about Baha\'ism amongst Baha\'is. Deniers looking for a debate on these forums are usually swiftly banned. Is this a new policy dictated by the UHJ or is there another reason?

The UHJ has probably realized that open discussion with non-Baha’is in open forums always ends up in the same no-mans-land that inevitably makes them look like the frauds that they are. Note that Iranian.com between 2009-2012 quickly became a complete PR nightmare for them. However, this may also be deceptive to the neutral observer because they are active in other fora actively campaigning for themselves, such as assorted NGOs and the like. 

As a word of warning: Iranians in Iran, especially authorities, need to be especially vigilant in the post-sanctions world.

We need some inside info regarding this matter. Maybe a letter from the cult UHJ. I\'ve observed that in many religious discussion forums the Baha\'i section has turned into a no debate section. You can only ask non-polemical questions. Technically, these forums have become part of the Baha\'i propaganda machine.

This is by design and no question there is money involved. They did this in Iranian.com as well. Whether through guile, through bribes or both, they always manage to do this to virtually every single forum they park themselves in.

NUR wrote: 
This is by design and no question there is money involved. They did this in Iranian.com as well. Whether through guile, through bribes or both, they always manage to do this to virtually every single forum they park themselves in.

When searching in Google, bahai.org always comes up as the first result as an advertisement. I wonder how much they pay them.

Probably a fair bit. But also remember, an entire section of the BIA is devoted exclusively to search optimization. With the kind of cash they are probably paying to Google corporation, the sky is the limit on what they can manipulate search engines to make appear or disappear from search results on Google (as well as Bing and Yahoo) as well as what kind of ranking these results may have. Every financially well endowed corporation is doing the same thing, and have been for over a decade now. On top of this, given the established proximity of these people to the private/contract side of the US National Security industry, it is a piece of cake for this organization to maintain its rankings and search results in perpetuity.

Henry wrote:

Ok I found it. They have an official policy of ignoring negative threads about their beliefs: 

https://groups.google.com