Subj : Re: Politics
To   : Gamgee
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Mar 19 2022 11:42 am

  Re: Re: Politics
  By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Sat Mar 19 2022 08:09 am

 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......

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

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

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

Nightfox
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