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New General Discussion Subforums - admin - 04-22-2022
If you're signed in as a member of the forums here, you'll see that we have two new subforums there: NSFW (18+) and Freedom to Speak.
Both of these are completely off-topic and password protected forums. In fact, they're hidden forums to boot, that only registered members can decide if they want to participate in them, or not. One thing people always objected about with "off topic" discussions in the past was that "they don't look professional for a site" and blah, blah, blah...
To address those concerns, the forums are hidden from the general public by nature. Folks have to go through the trouble to sign up and become a member of our boards to even know they exist.
Safeguard #2, these forums are each password protected. If you're going out of your way to join a forum, read up and ask folks about a password to a subforum, and then decide to be offended at the contents of those forums after having to jump through such hoops... /sigh I guess I'll just be happy to offend you, as it's obvious you went out of your way in an attempt to get in that state.
So what are these two forums?? And what features do they offer that others don't? Why would any sane person bother with jumping through the hoops to get into them?
Both forums are dedicated to the idea of us being built around a community, and for folks to have a freedom to speak with each other. One thing I always hated about the old forums, before they disappeared, was the Off-Topic forum being taken away. There should be some place where people who share the same hobby -- in this case QB64 -- can come together and get to know and talk to each other as people and not just as programmers. Why shouldn't the users be able to talk about politics, or sports, or religion, or their favorite TV shows? As members of the same community, they already have at least one trait in common -- they like the BASIC language -- so why shouldn't they be allowed to talk and chat and explore if they share other interests as well??
I dunno!! In my opinion, they should!
And thus, we have the two dreaded sub-forums that people either tend to love, or else they tend to hate.
NSFW (18+) is for people to talk about adult stuff. As long as what you post in here isn't illegal, I don't care what you post. Pictures of your infected toe nail turning green and falling off? I don't care! Want to trade nudes with Pete? I don't care! (/BLARF!!) Want to talk about some NC-17 movie? An erotica book you read? I don't care! And neither should anyone else who deliberately decides to force themselves inside a password protected forum.
If 18+ stuff isn't your cup of tea, simply don't go into that forum. If people post something you object to -- and it's not illegal (like kiddy porn, for example) -- then just ignore it and move on to the next topic. I'd say that we don't have any members who would post anything *THAT* bad in there, but then somebody would have to go and prove me wrong just for the shits of it.
Freedom to Speak is a more friendly version of the NSFW channel. Talk politics. Religion. Get into heated arguments with each other over whether C is better than COBOL... Just try and keep the imagery and such suitable enough that the conversation doesn't end up getting moved into the 18+ forum.
Both forums are going to be VERY lightly moderated, with people free to post and say what they want in them. Unless things get to the point that they're illegal (discussions about how to build a bomb and blow up the president, with step by step illustrated bomb making guides, for an example...), then I'm not going to step in and moderate people's freedom to speech. Chat with each other. Talk about each other's hobbies. Get peeved and fight with each other. That's what a community does -- particularly one that exercises its freedom of speech with each other.
And, if you've gotten this far in reading, and think you might be interested in joining in such talks, then let me ask you two last questions:
What do you have to be to view any sort of adult material? "over 18"
What limits do we place upon free speech and the freedom to speak? "none"
RE: New General Discussion Subforums - vince - 04-22-2022
(04-22-2022, 02:05 AM)admin Wrote: One thing people always objected about with "off topic" discussions in the past was that "they don't look professional for a site" and blah, blah, blah...
Who are these people? What is the supposed profession? Being a free QB64 help desk? Professional my ass! I'm glad that bubble became so full of itself it finally burst! Couldn't agree more on the removal of "general discussion"
RE: New General Discussion Subforums - Tim - 04-22-2022
So, how does one get a password to either of the new subforums?
RE: New General Discussion Subforums - admin - 04-22-2022
(04-22-2022, 05:49 AM)Tim Wrote: So, how does one get a password to either of the new subforums?
Read the first post and look at the answers to those last two questions. You'll find the password inside the quotes.
RE: New General Discussion Subforums - Dimster - 04-22-2022
Hi Steve. I am interested in the Freedom of Speech forum and think I entered the correct password but I got a message that I needed permission of post in that forum.. is there another step that I'm missing?
RE: New General Discussion Subforums - admin - 04-22-2022
(04-22-2022, 12:03 PM)Dimster Wrote: Hi Steve. I am interested in the Freedom of Speech forum and think I entered the correct password but I got a message that I needed permission of post in that forum.. is there another step that I'm missing?
Not unless I've got the permission settings off for the forum. Let me go check in a bit, and I'll get back in touch with you a little later today.
RE: New General Discussion Subforums - Jack - 04-22-2022
hello admin
I tried logging in the freedom to speak forum but I entered the wrong password too many times, now it will not show me the log in requester anymore but simply tells me that I am not allowed to view any post/threads
I logout of the forum and back in again but still the same
never mind it's ok now
RE: New General Discussion Subforums - admin - 04-22-2022
You may not be you guys. I went in and tweaked the permissions a little. Give it a try once more and let me know how it goes. If it doesn't work for you now, I'll have to play around with things a bit more. It's working for people with moderator+ status, as me and Pete have goofed off a little testing it, but so far we're the only two to have posted in either channel.
RE: New General Discussion Subforums - Dimster - 04-22-2022
Hi Steve - This time I Logged Out and back in using my password. I then was able to go directly to Freedom of Speech forum without need to enter that forums' password. Not sure that's what you had in mind or perhaps there was storage of the password to Freedom of Speech forum which I had originally used, and entering it once, was all I needed for perpetual access to the forum????
RE: New General Discussion Subforums - admin - 04-22-2022
Once you use it to log it, it should save it for you so you don't have to keep entering it over and over. (Unless your browser clears its cookies and whatnot.) There should be a log out button once you're in the forum, if you ever want to leave it and not worry about what the folks there are talking about anymore.
![[Image: clear-stored-password.png]](https://i.ibb.co/3NmhbM2/clear-stored-password.png)
Should look like the above (which is just a partial screen grab). The forum stores the password once you enter it once, but you can always clear that if you like.
(At least I hope it looks like that for everyone else. LOL!)