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Lessons learned from F&I
Topic Started: Dec 6 2015, 09:32 AM (949 Views)
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Many of us got tired of hearing all the bashing on anything liberal and our President. We left. Now, I see the same pattern here of some constantly bashing our country, America. We have pride in our county and are pretty well aware of our faults and shortcomings, so why keep up the annoying insulting posts? It will only serve to drive some off. Anyone can Google Canada and find dirt on Canada in retaliation. I respect Canada and I would like the same in kind. Thanks.
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Specifically. which recent posts
do you find fault with?
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What's the problem, Thump? I like the US, mostly.

The only US specific posts I can recall doing are the usual anti-Gun rants which I've been doing for a decade and a half to no effect. I thought all Americans were immune by now.

The biggest bunch of posts I've done recently have been poking fun at Canada and its stereotypes.
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The problem is, if a subject is not controversial in some manner, no one is going to comment.

No comments, no forum!
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Dec 6 2015, 09:34 AM
Specifically. which recent posts
do you find fault with?
I would like to know the answer to that myself. If you see a post that you feel is out of line report it.
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Dec 6 2015, 09:32 AM
Many of us got tired of hearing all the bashing on anything liberal and our President. We left. Now, I see the same pattern here of some constantly bashing our country, America. We have pride in our county and are pretty well aware of our faults and shortcomings, so why keep up the annoying insulting posts? It will only serve to drive some off. Anyone can Google Canada and find dirt on Canada in retaliation. I respect Canada and I would like the same in kind. Thanks.
actually, I wish the american posters here woudl educate themselves on Canada and discuss the dirt
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Dec 6 2015, 11:27 AM
Years ago before all these other discussion boards came into existance, I would post on eBay boards. The motto there was "bring your thick skin" There's a fine line to walk with letting people have theyre free speech, and protecting against rampant discrimination.

I've been a fan of "topic prefrence" If two people can't get along they should avoid each others topics. That kinda solves the problem, but there's still two other things, One being the conversation between those two on a third member's topic, and starting a topic for the sole purpose to diss another member.

I suspect discussion boards have been around a lot longer than you think! Long before eBay came into being (and I was an early user back in the days before it became a mostly commercial site) there was AOL and before AOL there was Qube and before Qube there were Computer Bulletin Board Systems (usually known as a BBS) and before the BBS, there was Usenet. I set up one of the first BBS systems in South Florida running on a TRS-80 Mod I with a Bell 103A3 300 baud modem back in 1980.

Alas, the Usenet newsgroups have become a vast wasteland and are virtually useless these days. The few that remain useful are moderated and a thick skin is not necessary. If you look at the successful web forums I think you will find a thick skin, again, is not necessary. The best forums are not only moderated, but fiercely so. Once you let the inmates start running the asylum, it's all over.

Most of the people here and on F&I came together on RV.Net. And many of us left, in some cases to create other forums, after the administration clamped down and started fierce moderation. I'm sure most of us remember the day, June 4, 2004 when the following was posted in the Around the Campfire forum:
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Political, religious, war related and other non-family posts, pictures, links, signatures etc. are not allowed in these forums and will be removed without notice or discussion. There are other forums in place or being put in place by some members for these type posts. These forums are NOT affiliated with rv.net.

Flaming, bashing of other members, states, countries etc. is also not acceptable here.

If a member name is banned for any reason, that name and any aliases will NOT be reinstated REGARDLESS of the seniority status, number of posts etc.

Please keep in mind, this forum, ATC, is provided for discussion of, Non-RVing, Family Oriented Topics. 'Family' includes people of all ages. Keep the topics light and fun and enjoy the friendship of the other members.

Some have asked if religious/national holidays, can even be discussed in ATC. Around a family campfire it is not uncommon to hear families discuss what they are going to do to celebrate a particular holiday, where they will go, etc. It is quite another issue to 'challenge' the establishment of the celebration, argue the merits/demerits of the holiday. The former is allowable, the latter is not. Sharing with others you are going to fly your flag to celebrate a holiday is fine. Arguing about the political implications is not.

Just let your common sense prevail. The vast majority of the members in ATC know how to conduct themselves in a cordial manner. Again, simply remember the purpose of ATC is not to provide a forum to debate the merits of other religions, preferences of lifestyle, pros/cons of other governments/countries, political ideology, another's ethnic background, or a host of other controversial social issues.

If the guidelines here are not to your liking, there are literally hundreds of other websites you can find any other topics more in line with your preferences.


Campfiresoapbox, Fire and Ice, The Congress, Neut's Closed Door, Berton's The Breach, Frank and Chrissy's Gathering Place, and now this forum. I'm sure I've forgotten a few. Each was created from the ashes of earlier forums. And the reason? No moderation. The lunatics were running the asylums.

Good luck with your new forum, but don't be disappointed if it joins the ranks of the also ran.
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I guess the pothead is once again going to enforce a rule...I give it 3....no 2, make it 2 days that enforcement will last
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Believe me, 1980 was a lot more than MTV and video games. I had a mutiuser/multiprocessor computer running CP/M on a Northstar Horizon along with the old TRS-80. It had 4 Z80 boards and could handle up to 8. It ran on the standard (at the time) S-100 bus and you could add a 5MB hard drive. Did all my programming in Z80 assembler until I finally got a copy of FIGForth. Decided not to go with the IBM machines and picked up a DEC PDP 11/23 - a DEC micro computer running RT-11. Programmed that in Macro-11 assembler.

The Internet was out there and active in the 80s. I finally got a PC and ran a Fidonet node. An astronomer at Georgia State University set me up with a uucp and uucico connection from Fidonet to GSU's connection to the net. I was able to access both usenet newsgroups and usenet email back in the day e-mail was still using bang addressing. We had search engines and tools like Archie, Veronica and Jughead and used ftp to up and download. I wrote software for the PC for the old chain of discos called Studebakers. I've been working with and on computers since the Army sent me to computer school in 1965.

Now a question for you: You wrote "into the late 80s when I was making some of my own money", but your profile here says "Birthday: October 10, 1989". Do you see a problem here?

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You wrote "into the late 80s when I was making some of my own money", but your profile here says "Birthday: October 10, 1989". Do you see a problem here?

So he was quite precocious.

Jealous?
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Dec 6 2015, 04:34 PM
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You wrote "into the late 80s when I was making some of my own money", but your profile here says "Birthday: October 10, 1989". Do you see a problem here?

So he was quite precocious.

Jealous?
Prenatally so.
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Well some of us are more precocious than others...

Do you realize that when Alexander the Great was my age, he had already been dead for 40 years?
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