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Every person is right in his own opinion so do not use offensive words on others who make a post but rather convince them to understanding why their opinion is wrong
Some members of this forum do this alot
Like saying a person's post is nonsense or is of no use like this post made by a newbie
with SOKO- DEKE  saying it is nonsense  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5454681.0
Please let us be more polite when making post or replying posts

Aren't you aware that this is bitcointalk community, where everyone can talk what they feels about you, bitcoin or anything they feels about, don't be surprised that you may look so good in your own eyes and other's not seeing that, being a newbie onnthis forum, expect them to correct you, it may appears as an insult to you but you're taking note of those aspect to improve more better, every experienced members here today once was a newbie and they pass through the learning process, if i were you, i will appreciate them and take note on the exact message they are trying to pass across.

I've learnt one thing in life that when men throw stones at you, take time to gather them and use the stone to build a defensive wall round about you, i hope you also understand this and it's interpretation.

This discussion will be better on reputation, you can move the thread.

They're just words and only you can let them effect or hurt you. Just ignore anything you deem offensive.

First move this thread to the reputation board.

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If you're not ready to be critized by others then bitcointalk is not for you.

I have gone through SOKO-DEKE's post in that thread and I don't see any part of his reply where he called the post nonsense. The only thing there was him stating the obvious, it's never a good idea to invest for anyone no matter how close they are to you, it's always better to educate them on the issue and if they like the idea they can proceed not you getting involved in their investment what if the whole investment scheme doesn't go as planned what do you think will happen to you?

I think you need to reread that post and get a better understanding of his reply.

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There's a post by LoyceV I read sometime ago that changed my mindset concerning some posts here in Bitcointalk.

That link is to a topic, not to a post of SOKO-DEKE. You must share a link of that offensive post, not that topic.

You have two ways to get a link of SOKO-DEKE post:
- At the left side of that post, you will see #number, click on it and you will get a link.
- Click on his post, you will get a link at the browser.
Copy the link and share it in OP but it is not a big matter, you can move on.

The forum is free for speech and if you don't like someone, you can click on Ignore to ignore the user. Ignore and move on, it's simple.

I'm offended by people who are offended by words. Grow a thicker skin and enjoy freedom of speech, even for the people you disagree with.

Agreed. If I want to call someone an idiot or patronize them, usually it's for a good reason. I, as an internet user, have a right to do that.

Of course, if I am abusing my freedom then I deserve to be called out. However if someone is obviously being an imbecile, or deserving of some snap, then why not....or if opportunity for banter is there then why not too :)


It's the internet bro :) If you can't handle it, press the power button. Everyone has a right to talk however they would like to. If it's actually out of line, even according to a vast amount of other members, then I am sure the perpetrator will get called out or receive similar treatment (as the circle goes). Otherwise, don't worry about it...and definitely don't make threads about it ::)

Some people bring their sensitivity here, we have to be good at ignoring and letting things pass, it's ok if people distrust you or say nasty things to you, don't make a big deal out of it take a breather

And by the way, I check SOKO-DEKE post and I'm surprised that there are no offending words there from my point of view.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5454681.msg62335452#msg62335452

The only part of the post which could be possibly be seen through someone's lens as being offensive in the slightest way is this:


which I personally do not consider to be offensive at all. In fact he is not making fun of you or saying mean words, he is just criticizing your action (and not you as a person).

Even if it still bothers you, you can just press the Ignore button to hide the post.

After reading the heading I was under the impression that profanity has been used in the reply or sarcasm was used. I did not find anything unusual in the reply still, OP was not okay with it. That is why I would ask @Edcrypto91 to please elaborate on the reason you feel offended by the reply of SOKO-DEKE. There is nothing anyone here could think of that makes you feel so bad unless you clear up our mind with a genuine reason for this topic.

Does this include someone giving a death threat or wishing death of someone on the forum?

Are you theymos, Cyrus or Satoshi? who are you for forcing every user to not use offensive words? you can just click ignore on the profile, so you wouldn't read all of his post including in the future.

If people can't accept the fact not everyone will be nice, I feel sorry for them because the world is really full of evil and you can't survive if you don't have a good mental.

Nope, there's a rule about that. If you did it, your account might got temporary ban and negative feedback.

No. Threatening someone with violence or death is a crime and obviously crosses a line. Pretty much anything else is fine unless you're just trying to troll by being purposely disruptive.

Woah, hold on there! Are you saying that if someone thinks your viewpoint is nonsense, you take it offensive and as an insult? How else do you expect them to express their disagreement? Or are you suggesting that people should be silenced just because their opinion doesn't align with yours?

Besides, I took a closer look at the thread, and I couldn't find a single instance where SOKO-DEKE used offensive language. Are you sure you didn't mix something up?
(And hey, don't get me wrong here, I'm not trying to offend you or anything. ;D)

What I can say to you buddy is that you should grow thicker skin of you plan to stay here for a longer period of time otherwise you will have a hard time here.

If you are looking for a safe place where no one can say anything bad to you without being punished by mods you definitely chose a wrong forum

people should learn how to not get bothered by other people's words especially if they are spending time on the internet(not just here in the forum). the internet is full of people that will not agree with you, would insult you, etc... just for the sake of making you angry. there have been members post threads in the past talking about not letting other people say "offensive" stuff, but they have been told the same thing by almost everyone, grow a thicker skin, and don't let their words bother you so much.

If you disagree with someone and feel attacked, you probably have been affected by it or something and might be guilty. It's a common mechanism by guilty people and makes them "believe" that they are always right. Insecurity really will hurt you and make  you feel like you've being attacked.

That's his view about the post and that's not the general view of the members. I also observed that the newbie got a lot of merits from the post which means that the post makes a whole lot of sense. People will always view things from a different perspective and they also have the freedom and right to express themselves. This forum promotes freedom of speech which has helped members to express their views without intimidation.

In a group like this, there will always be disagreement which will most times lead to agreement and greater understanding. I have learned never to be offended by the words or thoughts of other members because everybody must not accept my views or post. This forum is far better than other forums in terms of the use of words because I hardly come across insulting words.

I feel like it hasn't been emphasized enough how bad it is to want to restrict other people's free speech and make them bend to your standards. Anyone doing that doesn't realize he can't have free speech without others having it too! If you start limiting free speech, everyone loses!
I strongly hate all the wining about free speech! People who complain about this really don't understand how important it is, and how completely subjective "offensive words" are!
Watch Rowan Atkinson on free speech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUezfuy8Qpc). He explains it much better than I can.

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This topic reminded me of Poetry, by TMAN (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5138619.0). Enjoy!

We are not on the church or other place that is moderated  for our words. It’s his opinion towards the subject. I don’t see any impolite on the word nonsense the post is really nonsense on his perspective.

Words is not moderated since this is a public community. Everyone is free to express their feelings as long as it follows the forum guidelines for the forum. You can read the forum guidelines here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0 . You will encounter more aggressive words like that in the future once you engage a discussion or argument to an aggressive user here. Grow a thicker skin or use the ignore button if you can’t handle it.

To be honest,  online forums have always been like this and not only limited  to the bitcointalk forum, and the fact that everyone comes from different backgrounds and culture this kind of language isn't really frowned upon by everyone as its just one of those things...but to avoid being hurt by such best to develop some thick skin to be immune from such because next we shall hear is people advocating for cyberbullying rules to be enforced here which doesn't cut it especially that freedom is the prime factor here...

And of course not everyone will like this language here, but try to pretend as if you did not see it so that it doesn't get to you! Happy BCT chatting:)

You have not explore the forum yet if that is what you wanna imply. maybe you'll have a different way of thinking if you will give time to read about Franky1

please chec this thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5380036.0

I really enjoy reading the thread haha.  (some enjoy "every person is right in his own opinion" as what you have said but some won't tolerate) 

P.S. The Thread was not just a Normal Thread it's a Debate Thread. :)

Perhaps I'm the only one who think that the OP has a personal problem with SOKO-DEKE. If anyone should be hurt by what SOKO-DEKE said, it should be the original poster of the thread. However, it surprises me to see another person starting a thread and accusing SOKO-DEKE of using an offensive word. The creator of the thread you just quoted is different from the Op of this thread. Why are you complaining when the person who started the topic didn't complain about SOKO-DEKE's comment? Most people are thinking Edcrypto91 created the thread which SOKO-DEKE made his comment, but the thread was created by Fuso.hp, so I don’t know why the OP is being pained by SOKO-DEKE comment.

Well, I always try to be respectful around here, even with those I disagree with.
I personally do not mind if some people lose their cool and start insulting and using bad language around here, I do not enjoy it but it would be silly if we tried to achieve some level of false moral level by fooling ourselves that we have never lost our cool and patience in our lives.

Perhaps some people who join here do not notice that the approach moderators have for this place is to give as much freedom of speech as possible to users, and that means you wont get banned even if you personally offended or disgusted a moderator by letting them know your point of view.

That is something to keep in mind as positive of this community, in my opinion, specially when out there in this very same planet there are human beings like us who would likely be imprisoned for trying to express the same ideas, through rights we take for granted.

Let us be kind and remember we have right not to be.

Don't be offended by words - it's not nice when you're in this community. Freedom of speech is welcome - but certainly not about death threats and violence. You should know that - every account has Ignore user options, so maybe you need to include some users there especially anyone you think is bad.

Moreover, if the post makes no sense and is not relevant to the topic, you may be able to find another option - report it to moderator.

Well I don't know why people easily get offended by replies on their thread or post but c'mon its the fucking internet for God sake and anyone and everyone has its own opinion, its now left for you to look take it to your own advantage. I could also remember some few post by other members including myself which was heavily criticized but I didn't take as an insult rather I took to my own advantage and adjust my way of replying for cases that I deem wrong by me and other which weren't important I just snubbed.

A little ignorance can go a long way.

In fact, it will be a criticism that will improve our future posts. Just being criticized like that or said as a bullshit thread is already offensive.
Even though it's still not much, I even got a direct reply via PM saying that the person concerned did not accept my comment because it offended several parties and I also realized that it was wrong and started to improve myself because of that mistake.

And now if someone is offended just because of a thread that is considered nonsense, then they need to raise their level of patience.
There will be many more hurtful but useful comments.

There are quite a few threads similar to the one described by the OP, because some of them are made up and didn't really happen.

The most important thing is that it does not violate the forum rules, is not racist, and does not directly attack the person.

Everyone is responsible for what they say,  not what you entirely understand.
You drop a post that represents entirely how you view things; it's left for me to see it from your point of view, or I see it the other way around, but that should not make you feel less of a human. In this forum, we all have freedom of speech, and the only thing that I see the forum being against is a direct threat to one's life.

OP just let it go mate. It’s your lucky day you have not seen the worst when there was ex club who was eventually exposed as scammer was very active in bullying everyone on the forum. In fact they would bullied your current thread in no time along with other users. LOLZ

I ma laughing with the imagination that what would have really happened if that was present here. I am sure what you talking is correct but it’s just mild version of bullying (May be micro!!). So just let it go. Everyone has a freedom to talk anything and respond anything. Just keep posting and focus on better replies.

Seriously--and this is the internet, for fuck's sake.  In real life I wouldn't even scold people for hurting my delicate sensibilities, much less in the 4th world country that is the interwebz.

OP, I'm of the opinion that profanity and other potentially offensive words are generally tolerated by the mods so long as it doesn't descend into blatant trolling.  I've seen other forums where speech is severely moderated, and it just makes the vibe feel like a kindergarten with a very strict teacher.  If you want free speech (and a lot of us do), you have to put up with people saying things you don't like.  It's that simple.

Be more polite? Please be more insensitive I would suggest.

We're in the internet where people can just speak what they want to speak. Where people can say what they want to say. Do you expect that people will be polite on you especially here? Probably some might be, but most will not. I'm in a country where people online are mostly trolling, speaking offensive words in social media, and it's ok because it's called "Freedom of Speech".

If you are that sensitive here in the forum then you have 2 options. Either you adjust if you want to continue, or you find another forum where there is no freedom for users to speak what they want to speak (but I doubt if there is a forum like that). Please don't be so sensitive OP.

P.S. My 9000th post :D

OP, you are making an accusation, and although no one personally offended you, there is one more thing that was written to you in the reviews. Are you a Fuso.hp lawyer? Although it seems to me that he is not aware that someone decided to protect him,
The whole post is designed for "at least one merit"?
Get used to the fact that you are on the Internet, where courtesy will not come from everyone and everyone sees the situation in their own way. You should not be a snowflake at the slightest criticism.
Take care of your account; it will be much more useful.

Simple solution: Just don't write stupid things and no one will be offensive. There come people create meaningless spammy threads, who ask very dumb questions without doing a small research and so on. How can one be respectful in this case? Respect is not given, respect must be earned. It's disrespect when you open spammy threadto feed spammers, it's disrespect when you don't do a slight research and open a thread with dumb, easy question, yes, this is disrespect because you hesitated to waste ten minutes of your life for simple thing but you want me to waste one and give you a ready answer.

Who the hell is TMAN with his offensive words? Just joking, I don't know that person. You have to learn Russian to truly understand the beauty of offensive words and sentences. English is a language of songs, music and Russian is a language of course and swearing. Okay, no offense here but all I want to say is that just listen to this video and you'll understand what I mean: Bce peплики Mopтa. Кpoвь и Бeтoн. Пoлный cypc. (https://youtu.be/Ybz9ffTwOCQ?t=81)

Some people are too shy and weak in the real life. Some are depressed and isolated, the only place that give them voice is fora like this. Some are so thin and doesn't visit the gym, just a push with my finger will let them stumbled x20 and fracture. How do you want those people to air their views and hit on random people if not to hide behind the screen.

Some people are too emotional that they let a national broadcast by Putin put them in perpetual fear in their own country not Russia.

I understand how painful you must have felt especially as a newbie but don't take the words to heart if it is not a threat to life or any form of physical assult. Go through your post again, try to understand why such user sees the post as nonsense and get your motivation to improve on your post quality if you can, your in a forum where everyone is entitle to his or her own opinion unless you don't want to be here do not take such words to heart. Your nonsense post as it is seen by the user can make sense in the understanding of  another user so move on and save yourself the stress of the complain.

We are all humans with different ways our emotions respond to things, but come on, this is the internet; what do you expect? On the internet, I will advise you to expect more offensive statements made directly or indirectly against your opinion. But just as the saying goes, "we all have different morals." At the same time, even if someone is cool in responding to some comments, there are some pointless and trolling users whose opinions really stink, and when trying to respond to them, you will really lose your cool, and you can get rude and scold the person so badly. People normally talk about turning a blind eye to something and feeling less concerned about it; that's also what some members here refer to as developing a thinking skin, so that even if someone said your opinion was foolish or nonsensical nonsense, you wouldn't get mad (just saying). If you don't practice how to ignore insults and embarrassment on the internet, then it's not a place you should be.

Cheers 🥂, Dr.Bitcoin_Strange 👺👺

 I appreciate that we are trying to look out for one another but one thing you should understand is some people don't give a flying fuck about your feelings in a public space such as this See here, the thing is people tend to continue in a particular pattern if they notice you'd get offended by it. Grow a thick skin! And the way I see it, you are just taking pain meds for someone else's ache.

I understand what you are saying, I know people are too emotional in real life and they might bring that to this forum without knowing that here is a community were anyone speaks whatever in their minds without considering how the next person would feel after reading it. Usually I was also like this before by taking everything into heart without knowing i should drop some of it after reading them. I learnt to be strong when I created a post and the reaction i got from it made me angry, and as well keeps me strong to overcome any post that are not convenient with me. Lastly, learn to forgive and forget what has happened otherwise it would be very hard for you to learn new things over here due to the grudges. In fact criticism is something you can't do away over here.

Other forums might take your advice but this is a free-speech forum and we are not totally moderated on what we are saying unless it's life-threatening, get used to it, move forward, or ignore it.

You have to understand that we are of different races, backgrounds, and environments when other people say it's nonsense make it a motivation to improve your post, you cannot please everybody here, you don't have to please anybody here and they don't have to please you.

This forum consists of members from various countries, each with different traits and cultures. While you may find certain comments offensive, others may not, especially considering the anonymous nature of our interactions and the uncertainty of the real owner behind each account.

However, it's important to remember that as forum members, we should adhere to the forum rules. As long as the replies do not violate these rules, there is no grounds for penalizing the account.

The best approach is to utilize the 'ignore' feature, which allows you to avoid reading posts from specific users.

Speaking of "Offensive" there will be no end.
If you are offended by other people's words, you just don't need to listen and if you really can't stand the words, then you just choose the option to ignore, is it difficult?
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I strongly agree with what is said @LoyceMobile dan @hilariousandco.

This forum is an open space, someone can say according to their respective perspectives in responding to problems in the topic of conversation, are you trying to close the space of freedom just because you are offended.LOL

Bitcointalk is a place where you can have the actual freedom of speech so the words which you feel offensive can be just a common words to say for someone else, and if you feel like someone is keep doing that often then just put then on ignore so you won't see the posts made by them anymore.

Its very common that we can see hate speech against two on the internet platforms so bitcointalk is not an exception but forum rules says no trolling and death threats allowed and if you see them then don't hesitate to click report to moderator button and let the mods take care of it.

...and you took that really serious?? I mean, C'monnnn brown... He ain't even made mention of the word "stupid" in his post and you began to feel that way,..how 'bout if he called you a dumb-ass or something??
You gotta learn and develop a thick skin... Many have been slammed mercilessly for either making a post that's uncalled for, and at the end of the day, some radical members could abuse the defaulter in the process.. that's what you get; maybe sometimes, you don't seem to understand why it should be so, .. honestly, you don't really have to cus if any strict measures are taken on peeps that ask unnecessary questions or make repulsive Post, then you're likely to get banned as well and that would also make BTT an unbearable place for newbies...

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

No form of response is wrong as long as it contributes to the learning behind the thread. How would you feel if you made a thread and nobody responded to it? Sometimes members find different means to fit into a discussion that seem difficult to understand or isn't controversial. like everyone said, no need to be sad about a member's criticism on a thread. Have you noticed that such abstract responses get merited by some members. Meaning that, while it gets you sad, other members find if funny. Along the line in the thread, when another member opposes the critic they may come back to explain in details why they responded that way to the OP. It's all fun and they must be something to learn from them; don't stop opening threads because of critics. Be a mature and playful member. It'll facilitate your journey.

It is plain to see you are a newbie no wonder you allow the manner of words or statements of members of the forum affects you this much. With time you will learn to ignore many more annoying words liken to this in the future and only focus on picking attention to constructive criticism and correspondents that you think are supportive and developmental to your knowledge here.

Those criticism are what could be described as necessary distractions in the forum and if you are able to rather decipher a positive meaning out of them rather than getting annoyed at them then you would be amazed at how improved and of  quality you have become. There's a popular saying which goes this way: "use the stones people throw at you to build a steps for yourself instead of throwing it back at them"

On Internet, people can hide their identity and become stronger with words than how they behave in real life, face to face. They can use more rudal, impolite words which can be considered as offensive by some people.

Even their words are not offensive, you might not see it matches with your opinion then you disagree with them. It is time to learn to ignore things you see wrong and use Ignore button.

Think why the forum has that Ignore feature on users, boards and personal messages. You are free to use but must consider carefully because being an open-minded person is better.

https://i.ibb.co/8Xjkdbc/7pgeoo.gif (https://imgbb.com/)

SOKO-DEKE doesn't browse the forum with notification bot. So, he wouldn't know if you are mentioning him. Besides if he appears here, he will say this post is nonsense and it will cause OP more depression.

I didn't find any newbie SOKO- DEKE on that thread and also I can't even find a post stating the word "Non-Sense". I do agree that some people have aggressively stated their point of view but it is not necessary that one's opinion matches with others and we have full right to argue with any person if we do not agree with his or her statement.

Sometimes people may use in-appreciate language which may hurt anyone, we have the option to ignore the person who is constantly bugging us, but a better reaction will be to give a respectful reply to a harsh comment and the other person will feel ashamed.

Remember If you are bad to a bad person there is no difference between the two, but if you are good to a bad person, then you are far superior to him.

No offense expected when we become part of a multi-cultural and language community in online forum like bitcointalk forum. I understand that some people may be offended by words, but in the end it's not what deserves more attention.

In fact, I was once called a sycophant by one of my own local users because I had too much respect for smart and knowledgeable minds from other users when I tried to improve post quality and rank up. But in the end they also realized it was my way to increase skills and knowledge. Local users respect each other with good manners, but not all users have good manners in discussions, and it can also happen on global boards. You know that not all respondents on a topic will give constructive advice, but sometimes there are some insults that we really don't want to hear.

SOKO-DEKE (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3484325) is far from a beginner ;) I don't understand why the author of the topic mentions him at all. There is nothing offensive from SOKO-DEKE in the thread he links to. He's just talking (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5454681.msg62335452#msg62335452) about bitcoin, that's all.

Yeah, the op should understand that human are bound for correction so if someone actually says something against your post or reply to a thread the best thing you should do especially in the big community like this is just to take as a positive energy for yourself and instead of whining, you should just learn a lesson from it or just ignore it as every normal average person would do. And by the soko deke himself would have received a couple of correction in his struggle to improve here in the community and thats why he is just following the circle of things and correcting others thats needs it.

I was going to ask that same question until I saw it had been asked already. You know, if we advocate that people shouldn't take to heart mere words thrown here as hurting since it's just social media and not physical; why then is a comment issuing threat any different and punishable since it's also on social media and not physical?

Oh, TMAN! Does any even know where he is? User hasn't been active for a few years now. I hope he's ok. That user was a handful.

We don't know where TMAN has gone since then, he became inactive at a time when Covid 19 was really threatening the world, and he was last active on March 12, 2020. I dug up some of his recent post history while he was active, but he hasn't indicated himself to leave the forum for any reason. Of course I am with you and others hope he is well, but Covid 19 was too vicious at that time.

TMAN was well some months after the pandemic Covid-19 outbreak. This question about his status was raised a few times and I remembered that one forum member who has contact with TMAN in person, confirmed that he was well, no health issues in pandemic time.

I will try to summon that post. Here you go!

It's for information, you can believe it or not. Believe it if you trust ChiBitCTy.

WHERE IS TMAN? for 1 month of inactivity 🤔🤔 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5239475.msg54310654#msg54310654)

I'm happy that the information is correct, and that's what we hope.
So TMAN has left the forum for something, some kind of repentance or epiphany from God?

I don't understand why you find SOKO-DEKE's post reply offensive. SOKO-DEKE was explaining to @fuso. hp why he shouldn't utilize his father's retirement funds to invest in Bitcoin due to how unpredictable and unsafe doing so can be. I couldn't find any instances of his using foul language in the post.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5454681.msg62335452#msg62335452

Having said that, read a post carefully before forming an inaccurate opinion on it.

The forum is for 18+. You need a legal guardian.

He needs to be enlightened that this is a discussion forum and we agree to disagree when we sign up here maybe OP is in seminary and is not accustomed to this kind of environment, I've checked the member he is complaining and it's not even offensive words, what if he encounters real offensive words he may leave and take a vacation for being soft and only come back when he is ready.

Unlikely:

Since when? I haven't seen this anywhere, and it wouldn't make sense for an anonymous forum.

The last part I agree LOL. There are no way to verify the age.

But in my mind, I don't think any of us (or I) will even suggest our kids, someone who is known, a close relative or friends who is not adult yet to join the forum.

We have gambling sub-board, there are no rules need to mention that one doesn't need to be 18+
We have reputation sub-board, people do not mind to use in-appropriate slang towards each others
Then we have some selective people including me who use in-appropriate words everywhere.

I don't think I will encourage my girl to read what I write, not at least she become 18 or at least adult enough to handle the world of adults.

I don't suggest it for another reason: privacy.

Agreed. But kids could just skip those boards, just like they can skip many other gambling websites.

I haven't seen anything worse on Bitcointalk than what I've heard at schools ::)

I won't encourage it, but if my kids find their way to a Bitcoin forum online, I'd be proud :)
I'm pretty sure there are much more dangerous websites than Bitcointalk. I already teach my kids not to use their real name (in games), and they use email addresses without any personal information for registration. When they're a bit older, I'll add the dangers of the internet to the list. I can't wait until they're 18 and then suddenly release them into the wild, they need to learn it, and the best time to do so is while they're young.

How is this still Meta related? I'm not sure :P "Offensive words" are difficult for kids, it's so easy for them to take it personal. But still, school is much worse than Bitcointalk.

In public schools and the free world of the internet, we have no boundary for anything. I have seen kids not even 12 years (both) old, if my guess is not so wrong, are kissing openly like we adult do with our spouse when making love, as they don't care what's around them. A young kid of a close relative started to live with his boyfriend, left his parents, cut off all connections with everyone in the family tree does not surprise me too. Other day in gambling discussion I heard about this sex competition. All of it do not feel right but there are no way to deny too. I don't know how much I will be able to protect my children from all these uncomfortable events we witnessed but I am trying to provide the best I can for her to grow up safely.

None of it now meta related between you and me LOL. It's sounds like two father (If you have no dispute that you are the mother 🤣) is having discussion or what they do and don't want to see in their children to do with Bitcointalk until they become adult. We both need to shut up now LOL

I don't see any offensive words here op, SOKO-DEKE just gave words of advice so that the person will not involve in regret when his plan fail. Don't create a topic if you know you can defend yourself when question arising or when people start correcting your mistakes by commenting on your topic.

Since everyone has different names and ways of thinking, I don't see why someone's opinion should be a problem. Likewise, when someone uses inappropriate language, we shouldn't take it personally and should overlook any statement we find objectionable. Since we don't know one another and this is just a discussion board, it will be simpler to overlook an offending post. 
;D ;D :D

Some people can't even speak in the real life because of shyness, the only place they pour out their mind to say things is on the social media and it really hurt when they are being attacked with offensive words.  Some people can bear been attacked but it is not easy with some people endure it.

I'm beginning to take every word in the forum as a normal word and I'm getting use to it because I have come to understand that everybody can't be the same when it comes to manner of response. The forum is a community which it can't be possible to expect pleasant comments from everybody.

And the earlier you start accepting the replies and responses of community members to your post or reply the better for because in order for you to grow here people must surely critized or should I correct you and only people who don't want to grow can always feel correction is some kind of abuse or insult.

I actually used the link Op provided to see how offensive the said post of Soko was but te link was not directly targeting the post. I had to scroll down and there was nothing offensive said by Soko.


You will be surprised the kids will find the forum by themselves. This is possible that they may use some bitcoin keywords in their search and they will be redirected here. They will sign up with unknown username and keep interacting with you here ;D

In different dimensions it may happen. Some could also be people who don't find love and kindness in the real world. They came online for refugee and unfortunately they are bashed here too.

It's possible but thing is I am not introducing it to them as long as they are under age.

If I discover the account and see s/he is really into learning bitcoin and the technology then I will feel proud for them but if I see they are building the account just to earn from the signature campaign then I will be disappointed. I will like them (suggest and help) to learn a skill and educate them first before even thinking to earn some pocket money. When he will master a skill then he will never have an issue with money.

What you should understand is that people post according to their understanding in the forum, so whenever someone post you should try reply them on the language they would be able understand or to the standard of their post. To whatever they post seems to be right in their eyes but we should know that we have series of people here with their ways of knowledge and their acts of reasoning, when reading post your should be open and think widely because what you may comprehend and drives from the post may not be as others at end it results as someone posting irrelevant things or a nonsense post.

Many replies have mentioned how restricting people choice of word according to your standard is restricting free speech so thats one. Second, Offense is always taken not given, any word will be offensive if you took it as offensive, and no word is offensive if you don't take it as offensive, even slur, but I believe everyone on the right mind in this forum will not just throw slur randomly. And if you talk about politeness, whose standard should the forum follow for politeness, calling someone a dickhead if he/she do some stupid thing is as polite as I can be, but other people might find it not polite, so in this very diverse environment applying your politeness standard to other people is also non-sense.

If you think that the words they used for you is wrong and you don't like it, I think it's better for you to ignore them rather than coming back to lay down your anger in a polite way. The forum is full of people from different regions and sometimes we don't know what some persons is passing through that made them to be aggressive when writing.

Since the forum is not our living room or where we can get shelter, it is better for us to be neutral so that our words will not hurt other people that might find it offensive. Although it is very annoying for someone to write a post and at the end, they are being abused for there opinion. You have to stay away from bad energy when you see them coming, any post that is offensive to you just ignore it.

Op all you have to do is to have a thick skin (strong mind, brave mind and courageous mind) so you can do well in the forum if not my brother you see all comments and post as offence. You have to ignore any post that is not of favour of you or you have to reply it with good approach then move away from it. Not all the insults you put your mouth if not you will hurt your heart with them. If you are angry with them you hurt yourself the more. Forum is a place where freedom of speech is exercised. So if you don't like what the person said and you want to clear your mind you can reply to the person instantly. And by that your conscience will be clear.

This forum is a place where you can discuss with freedom by maintaining forum rules. So in discussion any argument or dissidence can be happened and most of the times some beginners don't take it easily and they feels like offensive.
It's normal in this forum even when I was a beginner I also made mistakes and others resolved. So don't take it too much hurtful and I think no one's intention is to hurt anyone. Always try to understand speech from others and what they are actually meaning. Then if you still feel offensive then kindly ignore and move on so that you can grow yourself. Always Be Positive And Stay Far From Negativity.

Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion yes, OP I get where you're coming from. You know if nobody criticize you in anything you do in life you won't know if you're ready to take it hard in life. People will always say things to bring your morale down and if you're not as hard as a nail then it will get to you and probably bring you down completely by even killing your confidence.
You can't stop people on this Forum from saying despiteful things concerning your post or whatever you do here, is just everywhere not only here on Bitcointalk. I feel for those newbies who let such words to eat them up and even discourage them from staying strong. To me I'd say let every newbies man up shit happens.

I don't find 'nonsense' offensive, may be cause it wasn't directed at me. Nonetheless, despite having free speech, this forum doesn't have much offense in it, except this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5138619.0), ofc.

Yeah....they might indeed find the forum, but I seriously doubt many will create an account and post much.  Children are like aliens to me, but from what I've heard about them they're very much into other social media sites and would probably find bitcointalk to be the equivalent of trying to read a newspaper.  And I mean a real, physical, makes-your-fingers-black, newspaper.  It's something that won't appeal to youngsters.

And even if minors did find the forum and stick around, it's not as though every thread is infested with profanity or obscene material.  What they'd really have to worry about is getting scammed, not picking up some bad habits or bad language.  LoyceV is right that school is much worse than bitcointalk.  You can't get your ass beat here.  Nobody can wipe boogers on you or whip you with a wet towel in the locker room.  I mean, please.  Let's keep things in perspective here FFS.

Where is TMAN, by the way?

This is especially needed if you active in different communities online. There are different types of people everywhere including internet and they can behave weird at times. If we let it affect us, it can be disturbing.

People have the right to express themselves based on their views and perception. We should have the heart to accept other people's views even when it is not inline with our own thoughts. I have also observed that words has different meaning in diverse societies. A word that you might see as an insult in your area might mean something else somewhere. So we should learn to tolerate each other. But there are some words that might be offensive. Truth be told  there are some posts that are actually nonsense. It was not useless because of grammatical errors but it was written totally out of context. But we should correct in love, so that people will not be offended. I read the post OP referred to and it was not a useless post.       

I don't think children will find this platform as an interesting place because the discussions are some how different. In other social media platforms, one word sentences are allowed but here it is not allowed. And those are the words children likely to use in their communications. Examples like: "How are you, exactly, hello, I am coming, etc. Really they like social media like Facebook, Whatsapp, TikTok and Snapchat etc. The communicational ways in those channels are different from this forum.
if any kid comes here, the languages in the forum might even affect the child. I don't think this forum is meant for people below 18yrs but above 18+yrs. As for me children are not matured enough to use the forum.

After reading some comments on this thread I came to a conclusion that there are no Offensive words on this Forum. In as much as some users have ways of using words to make some people feel bad without them seeing it as something that they need to reduce is still not that offensive. Some people address issues on this Forum in a way that some other people see it as offensive, sometimes I see here as a war front, if you're not strong and ready to face challenges then the bullet will hit you.
Let check the case of @TMAN, that's one hell of a guy.
When he uses words there's no going back, if you can't endure, it might break you and leave you for dead.

On the contrary it's now difficult to know users that are building accounts in order to earn. Besides those who are more interested in learning than earning will in the end still wear paid signatures. Before now, how to easily identify those who are only interested in earning is through the bounty. But now their attention is shifted to signature campaign, hunting for 100 merits.

Well described. They are very much into graphics and animations. Here will definitely be boring to them.

Definitely some gets expelled and waste school fees. But here, trolling gets you going while plagerism will do the expulsion.

He is gone, but LoyceV has the compilation of his f words...

I don't think anyone needs to study an account history before replying to a question or sending a merit. If the post worth merit then send merit without looking for who is behind the account, if the discussion is interesting then response it. Policing every account and trying to find fault in every forum account is just bad. It's pointless, makes the whole thing wrong about the concept of a forum. Obviously if something comes up undeniable truth then change your mind.

Keep it simple. Share knowledge and seek.

Report such posts if you see they are crossing the line. If it is on small scale, learn to ignore it.

What are you reporting and to whom? Words that you can't take or what?
Is best you ignore (like you said) any word that you can't take in, if you continue to report how long will it last? Not like you're in any kind of kindergarten school or something that you'd always report without standing out for yourself. And you'd be seen as a weakling that can't take cheap words, some users will be coming after you just to make a fool out of you so I'd advise you ignore and no word that's being said harshly that's small, remember that.

Its really funny you pointed this out so plainly because this is exactly the habit of some specific members here in the forum of which I won't mention but so forum members are found doing this exact act, I mean whats all the fuzz about, is it really necessary to check someone post history before given a merit, if the post is worth meriting its best you just merit it and move on.

I am offended by you being offended.  ;D ;D Not really.

Basically physical harm threats
Death threats.
I know where you live and will be looking for you statements. Are not allowed.

When I start a thread I always do moderated style and I personally will delete

“ fuck you blow me bitch style comments.”

I prefer less crude talk on my threads.

Also if I delete a post I quote it and say I don’t want f u blow me bitch type comments.

But I am old school. And like a bit of politness.

I don't think most of those words ate just words like you said, because everyone has their own right despite the rank the one may be, is not right for some users to abuse others on the forum because it hurts more than punishment, some users brings their real characters into this forum to intimate others, it is beter to give advice than to use offensive words on another, everyone is here to fetch knowledge and not the other way round.

@dercfor, If you must know, freedom of speech is very important, and on the internet, no one is restricted from saying whatever they think or whatever their opinion is. In this forum, anyone is allowed to say whatever they like as long as it does not threaten the life of another user.

You already know what one of the forum moderator said about turning a blind eye to some statement that you think hurts you. Always develop a thick skin. Even if you report such comments, as long as they're not off-topic, they will not get deleted.



Cheers 🥂, Dr.Bitcoin_strange👺👺