I am thinking should we have a trashcan file that censors certain words if people dont know how to wash their mouths
with soap?


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I am thinking should we have a trashcan file that censors certain words
if people dont know how to wash their mouths
with soap?

I would agree, if thats possible - but so many BBSes w/ the .mps (or other) would have to change?

... I also think that the infopack, if it already doesn't and it was COMPLETELY my fault, should mention proper settings for FSX_DAT, NETOPS, TESTING, DUPES;

read : s255
list : s255
post :
sysop: s255

The user, in this case, didn't post IN IBBS one-liners but rather was able to post in the FSX_DAT message base; they should have never been able to see it. :/

I believe I have to leave 'post' to nothing so the ibbs mods can post to it.

I have a Mystic Flag set so I can ban any user that DOES post vulgar stuff - and have doneso for the aforementioned user posts from 10/31-11/1.



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Re: InterBBS OneLiner
By: Utopian Galt to All on Sun Nov 02 2025 11:54 am

I am thinking should we have a trashcan file that censors certain words if people dont know how to wash their mouths with soap?

How would that be implemented? As a filter on the FSXNet hub BBS?

Nightfox
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I am thinking should we have a trashcan file that censors certain
words if people dont know how to wash their mouths
with soap?

How very America of you.


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Hi Utopian,
In a message to All you wrote:

I am thinking should we have a trashcan file that censors certain
words if people dont know how to wash their mouths with soap?

Why can't american's leave free speach alone? You guys are always
wanting to censor things. Why?


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Re: InterBBS OneLiner
By: Joacim Melin to Utopian Galt on Mon Nov 03 2025 08:16:46

I am thinking should we have a trashcan file that censors certain
words if people dont know how to wash their mouths
with soap?

How very America of you.

Part of me wants to agree with you, but then another part reads the news about what the EU and UK are up to regarding similar topics and I quickly realize it very much is not just us.
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Re: InterBBS OneLiner
By: Tiny to Utopian Galt on Mon Nov 03 2025 05:33 am

I am thinking should we have a trashcan file that censors certain words
if people dont know how to wash their mouths with soap?

Why can't american's leave free speach alone? You guys are always wanting to censor things. Why?

Free speech and some words here and there is one thing, but I think when a user crosses over into being a bully or harassing other members, etc., then it may be some time for some moderation.

Nightfox
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Re: InterBBS OneLiner
By: Joacim Melin to Utopian Galt on Mon Nov 03 2025 08:16:46

I am thinking should we have a trashcan file that censors certain
words if people dont know how to wash their mouths
with soap?

How very America of you.

Part of me wants to agree with you, but then another part reads the
news about
what the EU and UK are up to regarding similar topics and I quickly realize it
very much is not just us.

The UK may be part of EU geographically but it hasn't been a member of the EU for almost ten years now. They have become quite a insular country where hate and ignorance mixed with clueless politicians set the tone. Much good Brexit did them...


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Re: InterBBS OneLiner
By: Joacim Melin to Dumas Walker on Mon Nov 03 2025 08:34 pm

The UK may be part of EU geographically but it hasn't been a member of the EU for almost ten years now. They have become quite a insular country where hate and ignorance mixed with clueless politicians set the tone. Much good Brexit did them...

My wife & I were in London recently, and one day when we were there, we saw a group of people protesting Brexit..

Nightfox
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Re: InterBBS OneLiner
By: Joacim Melin to Dumas Walker on Mon Nov 03 2025 08:34 pm

The UK may be part of EU geographically but it hasn't been a member of th

e

EU for almost ten years now. They have become quite a insular country
where hate and ignorance mixed with clueless politicians set the tone.
Much good Brexit did them...

My wife & I were in London recently, and one day when we were there,
we saw a group of people protesting Brexit..

The Brexit referendum was quite the narrow win for the Leave voters (51% versus 48%, or about 1,3 million votes) but since the british economy is basically run into the ground and every major promise made by the "leave" campaign has more or less proven to be a pipe dream at best I think the britons have had enough and want to get into bed with the rest of Europe again. Whether the rest of Europe is interested is an entire different question.


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Part of me wants to agree with you, but then another part reads the news a what the EU and UK are up to regarding similar topics and I quickly realiz very much is not just us.

Bugger Off! hahahahahahah Couldn't resist. ;)

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Free speech and some words here and there is one thing, but I think when
a user crosses over into being a bully or harassing other members, etc., then it may be some time for some moderation.

Agreed.



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Re: InterBBS OneLiner
By: Nightfox to Joacim Melin on Mon Nov 03 2025 10:56 am

My wife & I were in London recently, and one day when we were there, we saw group of people protesting Brexit..

FREE NELSON MANDELA!
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Hi Nightfox,
On <Tue, 03 Nov 25>, you wrote me:

Free speech and some words here and there is one thing, but I think
when a user crosses over into being a bully or harassing other
members, etc., then it may be some time for some moderation.

Who decides what is being a bully and harassment? Why do you do that
Nightfox? Who elected you? I'm not really picking a fight, I'm just
trying to understand how a people who believe they are the land of the
free are so quick to burn books, so quick to cry for moderation etc.

I'm honestly curious.

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Re: InterBBS OneLiner
By: Joacim Melin to Dumas Walker on Mon Nov 03 2025 20:34:11

Part of me wants to agree with you, but then another part reads the news about
what the EU and UK are up to regarding similar topics and I quickly realize it
very much is not just us.

The UK may be part of EU geographically but it hasn't been a member of the E for almost ten years now. They have become quite a insular country where hat and ignorance mixed with clueless politicians set the tone. Much good Brexi did them...

I wasn't listing them as part of the same. I understand they are separate, but yet both have been playing silly-beggers lately with Internet laws set up to spy on people and, therefore, regulate their free speach.
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Re: InterBBS OneLiner
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Mon Nov 03 2025 18:09:53

My wife & I were in London recently, and one day when we were there, we s group of people protesting Brexit..

FREE NELSON MANDELA!

FREE JAMES BROWN! FREE JAMES BROWN!
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Tiny wrote to Nightfox <=-

Who decides what is being a bully and harassment? Why do you do that Nightfox? Who elected you? I'm not really picking a fight, I'm just trying to understand how a people who believe they are the land of the free are so quick to burn books, so quick to cry for moderation etc.

One thing Fido did well was their two-pronged approach to complaints.

1. Don't be excessively annoying
2. Don't be excessively annoyed

That seems like a good rule for life.



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Re: InterBBS OneLiner
By: Tiny to Nightfox on Tue Nov 04 2025 05:43 am

Free speech and some words here and there is one thing, but I think when a
user crosses over into being a bully or harassing other members, etc.,
then it may be some time for some moderation.

Who decides what is being a bully and harassment? Why do you do that Nightfox? Who elected you? I'm not really picking a fight, I'm just trying to understand how a people who believe they are the land of the free are so quick to burn books, so quick to cry for moderation etc.

I'm honestly curious.

Seems like a bit of an extreme reaction to my comment.. But I think it's fairly self-evident when someone is being a bully & harassing other users. It's not just using a word here & there, but things like throwing out insults to other users, generally being mean, etc.. I'm also genuinely curious when people think online forums should be basically a wild west free-for-all and allow that kind of thing. That's the kind of thing that drives people away, which is the opposite of what I think we want in a public forum. It's not about "burning books" or anything like that, but not putting up with people being bullies & trolls, etc., doing things that drive people away.

Nightfox
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Re: Re: InterBBS OneLiner
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Tiny on Tue Nov 04 2025 06:59 am

Who decides what is being a bully and harassment? Why do you do that
Nightfox? Who elected you? I'm not really picking a fight, I'm just
trying to understand how a people who believe they are the land of the
free are so quick to burn books, so quick to cry for moderation etc.

One thing Fido did well was their two-pronged approach to complaints.

1. Don't be excessively annoying
2. Don't be excessively annoyed

That seems like a good rule for life.

That's true.

I've also seen instances where people make trollish posts on FidoNet and are basically run out of the echoes and they stop posting there (I'm thinking of a specific person in particular).

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I'm honestly curious.

(I'm replying to the wrong person, oops)

Can we all come to an agreement that doxxing someone's family is not
something we should tolerate? That seems like a pretty easy line for us to establish not to cross that doesn't feel like it's hurting anyone's freedom
of speech, right?

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Hi Nightfox,
On <Wed, 04 Nov 25>, you wrote me:

Seems like a bit of an extreme reaction to my comment.. But I think

I didn't mean it that way, I was simply curious and thought I would
ask hoping for conversation.

also genuinely curious when people think online forums should be
basically a wild west free-for-all and allow that kind of thing.

I guess I fall into that category. However, I think the "moderation"
should be a setting each user has to enable. ie: I don't like reading
messages from some people in fsx. Instead of asking for a ban, I just
skip the message / thread.

That's the kind of thing that drives people away, which is the
opposite of what I think we want in a public forum. It's not about "burning books" or anything like that, but not putting up with people
being bullies & trolls, etc., doing things that drive people away.

Which is your choice and I accept it, HOWEVER why are you able to choose
what I can see on my system? I want all the crazy to come through so I
can use my ">" button to skip the message.

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Hi Esc,
In a message to Nightfox you wrote:

Can we all come to an agreement that doxxing someone's family is not something we should tolerate? That seems like a pretty easy line for
us to establish not to cross that doesn't feel like it's hurting
anyone's freedom
of speech, right?

I was not picking a fight, nor trolling. Simply attempting to have
a conversation on a platform designed for it. I have learned my lesson
and accept my question was somehow insulting to people and while I will
not apologize, I will accept it.

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I was not picking a fight, nor trolling. Simply attempting to have
a conversation on a platform designed for it. I have learned my lesson
and accept my question was somehow insulting to people and while I will
not apologize, I will accept it.

Hey bud, that's all I'm doing :)

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also genuinely curious when people think online forums should be basically a wild west free-for-all and allow that kind of thing.

I guess I fall into that category. However, I think the "moderation"
should be a setting each user has to enable. ie: I don't like reading messages from some people in fsx. Instead of asking for a ban, I just
skip the message / thread.

I think I fall into this one also. If they get real bad, i.e. difficult to ignore, I can always put them in the twitlist file and be done with them.


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