Talk:Bozo bit

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http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?BozoBit <-- more what I understood it to mean, old macos nickname for a "don't copy" flag file attribute 72.164.55.2 23:02, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

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Moved to http://zhurnaly.com/cgi-bin/wiki/BozoBit. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 11:56, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Interesting - I have heard more than once the phrase "He has his bozo bit stuck" or similar, which refers to the third person's apparent lack of intelligence. The second meaning here is about an observer's reaction to a person: setting a flag about the person to avoid listening, which is different. Anyone else heard this? I can't find it in print of any form. Is it perhaps a NZ-only use? Gordon Findlay (talk) 01:45, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

From The Daily WTF: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Straight_Shooter_for_Upper_Management.aspx, published in 2005: "I flipped the bozo bit on this guy after two weeks of dealing with him". 150.101.52.48 (talk) 04:08, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Use in BBPress

In the web bulletin board software BBPress, there are three options to deal with spammers and other troublemakers; as well as the usual ability to set the user's type to "Blocked" (usually called "Banned" in BB software), there's also the options to set them to "Inactive" (they can log in and read but not post), and a third option to leave them as a "Member" but set a flag saying "This user is a bozo" meaning that anything they post is automatically flagged as spam. (BBPress has three levels of posts instead of two; as well as "normal" posts which, if located in public forums, are visible to everyone, and "deleted" posts which are visible only to the mods, in between those are "spam" posts which are visible only to the mods and to the original poster.)

Should this have a mention in this article? After all, it's analogous to the original MacOS meaning. — 188.28.92.146 (talk) 06:03, 17 April 2012 (UTC)