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> Everyone on it lived nearby and if you were an ass you were close enough to get punched in the face. Didn't stop folks from flaming and trolling. The BBS Doc
by Karrot_Kream 5y ago
> Everyone on it lived nearby and if you were an ass you were close enough to get punched in the face.
Didn't stop folks from flaming and trolling. The BBS Documentary [1] has an example of a kid who follows around and threatens a BBS owner who owns a computer so because he didn't like the computer it ran on.
[1]: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
- giantrobot 5y ago> Didn't stop folks from flaming and trolling. Definitely not but the prevalence was far less. The local nature of BBSes inspired a lot of prior restraint we don't see a lot on the Internet anymore. That's not to say anonymity or pseudo-anonymity is bad. It just creates a different environment than what you'd typically find on BBSes.
- Karrot_Kream 5y agoOh totally. Plus you were using your cash on minutes so there's only so much bad behavior you could do.
- giantrobot 5y ago> there's only so much bad behavior you could do Or afford to do. Trolling is a lot less attractive at 1200 baud for a dollar a minute.