Next target: racists and villains

[playBunny]

I said "if you're looking for a language-sanitized playground then perhaps FIBS isn't the place for you."

An intelligent person would parse that as, "FIBS is not a language-sanitized playground.  If you're looking for a place that is language-sanitized, FIBS isn't what you're looking for."  If FIBS doesn't make you happy, then you should probably look for a different server because FIBS isn't going to change to accommodate your desires.

lol. Actually an intelligent person wondered why you equated wanting an improvement in one area of the site to being unhappy enough to warrant leaving the site altogether. There's a huge gulf between "Shouts are an unpleasant experience and here's my two cents on the matter" and "Fibs is a place that I can't enjoy so I'm outta here"! That's why I am disappointed when I see any form of "there's the door, you know how to use it" response. It comes across the wrong way to dumb folks and propellerheads alike when you mention not being here as a solution.

Actually my own solution to the shouts room is a variation of the door one. I don't tend to open it and go in there unless I'm playing someone who's taking 20 seconds per move.

[Patti]

It's actually easier to cast a wide net and ban a country than it is to target an individual.  It's situational, but that's generally the case.

I would be massively opposed to having a profanity filter built into FIBS... it offends my sensibilities.  If a client wanted to do that, I'd be less bothered.

[inim]

Q: Wanna know what the best point of freedom of speech in combination with Unicode is?
A: One can shout "Homosexuality" in Farsi, همجنس‌گرایی

[PersianLord]

Q: Wanna know what the best point of freedom of speech in combination with Unicode is?
A: One can shout "Homosexuality" in Farsi, همجنس‌گرایی

I really ask moderators to delete inim's nonsense as it's not even remotely related to this thread. It seems that inim has such severe psychological problems that makes him pee in the every discussion that doesn't go his desired way.

Once he tried to pee in my thread on MGC and when he was faced with a humiliating evidence, he regretted and apologized to me and moderators in a lengthy PM. I don't know why he can't take lesson from his shameful past, but I hope he will not make a fool of himself as usual.

Regards

[PersianLord]

I really hope that Patti will not get upset, but it seems that my proposal to form a "Law Enforcement Committee" was actually initiated long ago with an intelligent plan. Just type "help erase" in the server and you will get:

NAME

erase - How and why accounts are erased

DESCRIPTION

I'm very sorry that this is necessary, but I can't wait any longer:
There have been problems with users of the backgammon server complaining
about other players. Complaints were about cheating and about insulting
other users. It's not possible for me to verify if those incidents did
really happen, because I'm not logged in all the time, because people tend
to behave well as soon as I'm logged in and because listening to all
players involved (which I tried) uses up a lot of the time I can use for
maintaining and improving the server. Therefore I have asked a couple of
players to report those incidents. Those players are users of this server
for several months and I know that I can rely on what they tell me. If
those players keep telling me that someone is misusing the server I will
erase the account in question without discussing about it. I know this
may not always be the ideal way to solve the problems, but I don't see any
other way to deal with them.

REMARKS

Don't complain if it happens to you - it's not my decision. No, I won't
tell who the players are whom I asked to keep their eyes open. I won't
answer the insulting emails I'll get. I won't listen to complaints about
other players by other players than the ones I asked to complain.

Just thought that this might be interesting to share.

Regards

[Patti]

Give it up, PerisanLord.  I'm not creating a FIBS Language Police Force, period, full stop.

[PersianLord]

Give it up, PerisanLord.  I'm not creating a FIBS Language Police Force, period, full stop.

Well, thank god you didn't get upset.

I didn't ask anything in my last post, as I had stopped hoping to see implementing the FIBS behavioural norms last night when I wrote my last post here. I just posted the result for "erase" command to show that not only my proposal was not based on a childish, or "naive", imagination, but it was actually an intelligent and well-calculated plan for keeping jerks out of FIBS. You surely can declare that you dislike the idea and we all will respect your opinion, but calling me "naive" because of my proposal was unfair and with my previous post, this was clearly proved. Nevertheles, I admit that such an idea may be very hard to achieve.

And OK, Patti. CASE CLOSED.

Regards

[socksey]

Let's don't revert to personal insults here.  Not allowed on fibsboard and I don't like spending the time to delete them and send explanations, so stay on a rational discussion mode and try to learn something here, OK?

socksey



Barnum was wrong (A fool is born every minute) - it's more like every 30 seconds. - unknown

[webrunner]

hear hear sox

[manxcat]

      :ban:I have thought long and hard over this subject. Racism is one of the worst faults of mankind, and i fight it whenever and wherever i can. I have written about it many times.  I even pushed my motorcycle a half a mile once rather than buy gas at a place where i knew the owner of the station was a racist. 
     But i think as someone said, Nih may not be or may not know if he is a racist,  and believe that he says things to get people riled up and going off. I abhor all the racist terms as well, as they do promote the negative stereotypes. I used to think i wanted some sort of censorship in that here, but have learned to ignore what i do not want to read, as there often are things i do want to read from many of the people who do offend at times.  Also i would rather know who IS racist, up front, as i can then choose not to play them or have telled conversations.  Although i  do have friends who are racist, i do not permit usage of that sort of terminology nor allow the jokes. There is always gag if i cannot otherwise tune it out. 
     In any case, i think that some of those who shout ugly things need a place they can vent in ways they cannot in their real life.  If this satisfies a need, without doing actual harm in the world, then let it be. And some just want attention, and so say things to get it, myself included, at times.   I have seen other game sites where there is censorship, sometimes over some fairly innocent comment, and i prefer the freedom here.
     One way to "censor" racist and other unwelcome remarks is to not respond to them, not play them, gag them until they leave or stop.  We did that with stewy.  Anyway, official censorship is the first step toward tyranny.  We would not want it in our government, so why have it here.

[cassandra]

i ignored this thread until miss posted the link yesterday because of cowardice


ignoring, gagging, blinding
yes its a way
many people did in the past


i do not gag anybody.
sooo
i can recognize more shouts sort of pl showed us since the greetingmessage is exchanged
and
i think, this message helped.

you know what i mean?

(... i mean you!)