Subj : Re: Politics
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Sat Mar 19 2022 03:10 pm

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ni>> Not all world events involve politics.

 Ga> While that may technically be true, I think the events would quickly
 Ga> devolve into politics. Like within 4-5 posts/replies.

 Ga> For example:

 Ga> 1. Let's say there are catastrophic storms (tornados, hurricanes)
 Ga> somewhere. Certainly a world event. But, within a few posts, the topic
 Ga> of "climate change" would come up, and then......

 Ni> I agree (and was thinking about that).  It seems like Avon is a
 Ni> fairly good mod for FSXNet and could help curtail some of that -
 Ni> but still it might happen too often to deal with easily.

Yes, I think it would happen often enough that Avon would quickly get
tired of having to deal with it.

 Ni> There's an online forum I talk on, which has a "general" area and
 Ni> world events come up sometimes.  Politics is against the rules
 Ni> there, and occasionally things start to get into politics, but
 Ni> the admins usually delete such posts. Most of the time, the
 Ni> people there are fairly good about not getting too political.

I think we've seen from both Fido and Dove that people may not be so
good about it in the BBS world...

 Ni> Deleting inappropriate messages isn't really feasible for a BBS
 Ni> message network though.  Other BBSes would have already
 Ni> downloaded the message, and the conversation can more easily
 Ni> continue on into politics.

Absolutely true, and one of the biggest differences between a forum
and the FTN/QWK world.  There's virtually no way to stop it if people
are insistent on continuing, as one can simply change names/aliases,
or even get a feed from a different source.

All in all, it seems like "an accident waiting to happen" to allow
such echos here in FSX, when we have the history of what's happened in
other networks to guide us.


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