Nazi References

[Daily Commute]

Threads tend to go downhill real fast when people start mentioning Nazis in any way. Is there a way the mods could set it up so that the word "Nazi" automatically flags a mod to check to see if the thread is staying within the guidelines? Or do we forum users just have to use the "spam" function more often?

Edit: And yes, Randya, I know that under Godwin's Law, this thread should have ended with the first post. :)

[monogodo]

What another forum I belong to did was to add the word "Nazi" to the censor engine. If someone composes a post with the word "Nazi" in it, it's automatically replaced with [CENSORED].

For example, posting "The mods are all Nazis" would result in "The mods are all [CENSORED]"

It seems to work really well over there.

[vtjim]

Google "godwin's law" :)

[InfamousG]

Google "godwin's law" :)

That's what I came in to say :p

[jfmckenna]

That's what I came in to say :p
LOL me too

[brokenrobot]

I'm with Daily Commute here: Too many references! Though there are a lot of people who also call anti-Semitism without any visible provocation... Amd I think Momogodo's got the right answer with the auto-censor thing.

[phinney]

Sounds like a suggestion a Nazi would come up with. ;)

[Stacey]

I was gonna say that! :mad:

[Daily Commute]

I wish Godwin's law applied--a Nazi reference ends any discussion.

[phinney]

I wish Godwin's law applied--a Nazi reference ends any discussion.

I believe this post invokes Guy's corollary to Godwin's law and with my original post on this thread I stumbled into Quirk's exception.

[Maelstrom]

For those who care


Professor Goodwin, U of I, in 1981 made the observation that Usenet discussions gravitate downhill.

He postulated that as the length of a discussion thread grows, the probability approaches one (1) that one participant will introduce the terms "Hitler" or "Nazi".

The custom has evolved that the first party to utter "Hitler" or "Nazi" has lost the discussion, and the thread terminates.

[randya]

"The custom has evolved that the first party to utter "Hitler" or "Nazi" has lost the discussion, and the thread terminates."

That should have been 12 posts ago. ;)

[Maelstrom]

12 years ago, speaking of someone from that 'online time' (and before, I come from pre-internet eg usenet and bbs), no one cared. Its only recently (imo) the pc has come online ;) :D :p....

[linux_author]

12 years ago, speaking of someone from that 'online time' (and before, I come from pre-internet eg usenet and bbs), no one cared. Its only recently (imo) the pc has come online ;) :D :p....

- very good! a double-entendre without sexual connotation! how 'pc'!

(speaking as a Usenet user since 1987)

:-)