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| NoName |
Posted
on 31-Aug-01 09:30 AM
Dear San,
I know when you wanted to take a survey whether you should edit some "undesirable contents" , majority of the people did not want it. Call it the tyranny of liberty. I guess I was the minority. The majority won (of course) and the result? The polluted message board.
Is there anyway to filter out the explicit content when somebody posts such stuff? It would be great if it could be done. This site is still fun, entertaining, besides being educational. Let's not make it the victim of its own success. I know a few people who have stopped coming to this site because of the postings with the real poor taste. It may be a simple sample but it says something. I know there will be a big cacophony because somebody with the 'NoName' wants to censor this board. All that crap about free speech and swatantrata! But choosing to be anonymous I request you to think about this. I know it is a great deal of time you may have to put into it, but there must be some volunteers who could help you out. Somebody whom you could trust.
Can you give this matter some thought?
signed
NoName
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| bik |
Posted
on 31-Aug-01 10:38 AM
Dear NoName and other interested parties,
We are also concerned about the usage of foul and offensive language on this site over the discussion board. GBNC executive committee is trying to decide what should be done about it. I have proposed 2 ideas. One is to hold a discussion ( a real one and not over the internet) with the community at large and the other is to hold a discussion amongst the exec. members ourselves. I am going t be away this weekend, but look for further postings on this subject next week.
I personally think there should be a place for people to voice thier opinion. However, I am not sure if it should take center stage like it is doing now. So, we will discuss the mertis and demerits of changing things, keeping things the same, and if changing- then to what?
Regards,
Bik
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| NoName |
Posted
on 31-Aug-01 10:42 AM
read 'small sample' instead of 'simple sample'
NoName
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| NoName |
Posted
on 31-Aug-01 10:46 AM
Bik,
Please clarify something if you will please.
Are you proposing to hold a discussion about role of GBNC executive council or the content of this message board?
NoName
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| bik |
Posted
on 31-Aug-01 10:50 AM
Dear Noname,
The content, and what could/should be done about it.
Bik.
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| upperwestside |
Posted
on 31-Aug-01 10:55 AM
Hey Frien:
I understand your concern. But how does San, or for that matter anyone, decide what is "polluted"?
One man's food may be another's poison, right? What you call educational, I may find that high-browed, and what I find entertaining, you may call them lurid or trash, and vice versa. I am not talking her of downright obscene stuffs as, "XXX, let's go to bed."
It's not San, bot GBNC as a whole, which should sooner or later decide, whether it wants the site to be an all-inclusive forum, or develop it into an exclusive club that's open only to its members. But even then occasional "pollutions" are inevitable, my fren. That's life.
Here's what I suggest. Let it be the way it's. Let's see who it goes. People have different temperaments, and tastes. Obviously, you can' expect everyone to be Ashu, Sally, Trailokya, or Biswo. No offense meant to the ones I have named. I have enjoyed their postings and they still continue to attract me to GBNC.
But I equally enjoy occasional spats (to an extent) from other indiviudals (Diwask, for one), who like me want to just partake of the fun without quite bothering to take any rigid positions on issues. Yet I enjoy visiting the site as much and posting stuffs occasionally.
One just has to accept the fact that some of us are more private by temperament than the others.
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| bone head |
Posted
on 04-Sep-01 04:06 PM
Way to go UPPERWESTSIDE,
I with you man. Keep the site as it is.
Bone Head
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| bik |
Posted
on 05-Sep-01 03:11 PM
Greetings everyone,
Just to keep you posted, we are searching for a venue to conduct this discussion with the community at large. We hope to have this discussion within the next few weeks. So, please look for annoucements on this topic on this website. I will put a posting on the GBNC News Section as soon as we confirm a venue.
Also, I want to reassure everyone that keeping things the way they are is one the of the options. I am encouraged by the recent postings but, that is only my personal opinion.
Regards,
Bik.
GBNC Exec. Member.
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| upperwestside |
Posted
on 05-Sep-01 04:05 PM
Hi Bik:
Good to hear from you. Please keep this in mind: there are lots of serfers outside Boston who log on to GBNC.
I suggest that you try to be accomodating, and let it develop as an all-inclusive Nepali site. We outside Boston will not be able to interact with you in person, but let me tell you this. The site has given me a wonderful opportunity to connect with Boston's Nepali community, and the dynamics therein, occasional spats notwithstanding.
Thanks San for managing the site. Let the show go on.
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| bik |
Posted
on 05-Sep-01 04:12 PM
Dear upperwestside,
Your point is well taken. Thank you for your response.
Bik.
GBNC Exec. Member.
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| bik |
Posted
on 10-Sep-01 05:02 PM
Greetings,
Please see the "GBNC News" section for a discussion on this topic.
Bik.
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| Paakhe |
Posted
on 14-Sep-01 10:21 AM
In any of the communities, there are certain norms which should be obeyed by anyone who wants to be a member of that community. I have seen many communities which manually purge the posting posted in that board. And if passes the norms, then only will let them be published. What about doing such thing?
Because in this community, I have have seen many posting which rather than being some sort of logical discussion or information, are personal slandering. Freedom doesnot mean that anyone has right to slander any other person without basis. Everyone should respect sentiment of every other person.
I don't know much about the resource of GBNC. Still, if possible think about purging content before publishing them in this board. amen..
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| CORRECTION |
Posted
on 14-Sep-01 10:53 AM
PAAKHE= UNEDUCATED, RURAL, PRIMITIVE (LIKE THE TALIBAN RESTRICTING EVERYTHING)
FREEDOM OF SPEECH= NO PURGING
IF YOU ARE A COMMI(LIKE THE MAO'S)=BELIEVE IN PURGE AND CENSORSHIP AND BAN ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING.
JUST LEAVE IT ALONE
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| Puskar |
Posted
on 14-Sep-01 11:37 AM
GBNC members, execs et al,
Filtering bad words is one thing, but trying to create hard rules for an online community such as GBNC would be difficult. Rather than looking at what I would like to see in an online community, or what you or anyone else would like to see, we have to know that any online community is a virtual public space where anyone can speak anything. It could be analogous to Tundikhel where one can sit and eat peanuts, bask in the sun, as well as see people urinating next to the railings. GBNC is not the only online community struggling to define the rules. This is something we will learn and exercise as people's attitude/behavior evolve cognisant of the socio-cyber evolution.
P
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| Paakhe |
Posted
on 14-Sep-01 02:08 PM
Ha ha ha ...
CORRECTION: you know the meaning of Paakhe, but you don't know whom should we call paakhe. Paakhe are those who donot know how to respect sentiments of other people. Who donot even know the minimum norms and values of a community. So, Look in mirror, self-analyze and think. ok My name is mirror to you. Look into that.
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Posted
on 14-Sep-01 02:16 PM
but why call yourself a pakhe as a pseudoname? do you want to provoke reaction, do you feel sympathy for all those pakhes (here i am talking about the original meaning of pakhe, i.e. who lives in pakha- gau- away from shahar and don't know the riti thiti of shahar. Let's say a kathe is somebody who wears sun glasses in pouring rain but a pakhe is somebody who doesn't know there are such thing called sun glasses.), or just wrote without thinking anything? Let's face it pakhe does not evoke a positive feeling. So, why write in the name when peole will give more attention to your name rather than what you write? Unless your chosen name is part of what you want to say in this board.
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| paakhe+paakhe=paakhe |
Posted
on 14-Sep-01 03:03 PM
Primitive, uneducated, uncivilized, underdeveloped.
free,civilized sociesty does not put restrictions. They let it flourish.
Dheedo Paakhe , Dheedo paakhe, Dheedo paakhe , paakhe Dheedo.
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| Paakhe |
Posted
on 14-Sep-01 03:32 PM
That means there are no civilized in this world. Because every society has restrictions in the name of law which everybody should obey. Freedom of speech doesnot means you can say anything to anybody anywhere you want. Keep this in mind.
You seem to be still in you teenage. Too much rashness doesnot do good to you.
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| PAAKHE+PAAKHE=PAAKHE |
Posted
on 14-Sep-01 04:27 PM
Thats where you are wrong, this virtual community where you are posting is a free community. And you are trying to put restrictions yourself. Just like a pure paakhe you are not making sense. You just contradicted yourself, you must be a pure paakhe.
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