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Old February 24, 2019, 06:16 AM   #7
briandg
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There was a company owned bulletin board that I frequented for many years, the man who owned the company built and maintained the board for the entertainment and information of his customers. It wasn't completely devoted to his business, only about half of the site was. This man took his business very seriously, it was his life.

When a handful of troublemakers started aggressively trolling the board the owner of that board washed his hands of it. He owned it and his salaried staff managed it. When people started to troll him personally, he felt no further need to allow a service that he performed for a minor number of his customers to be a drag on his business. He shut it down overnight, and the venal reactions from the trolls was epic and widespread all over the internet.

A bulletin board really needs to be moderated. Larger boards require even tighter moderation. Some people see it as censorship and oppression, but moderation is how a board stays on target, and stays relevant. When disorder becomes widespread they degenerate into facebook like cancers.

The volunteers who run this board do so as a favor. If operations become too anarchic and disorganized, just like Lew Rothman, these people who own and run the board will clean house or shut it down entirely.

A board is an organized and structured place to discuss specific items without having to filter through megabytes of junk while surfing. There is nothing else like the BBS system. Facebook is a pathetic shadow of what a BB aspires to, but that is what is happening as people lose interest, boards lose members and fewer join, and the boards close down leaving twitter, FB, and all of those other pretty much useless profit based 'services.'

My grandfather always said to me "You have your bible, your almanac, your dictionary and encyclopedia, and you'd better cherish them. They are the only things that you can count on when you need to think. Dread the day that you don't have them."
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