Re: Nathan, Maybe you should read your own FAQ

[pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul Francis Gilbert)]

Gabriel Morales <Togega@concentric.net> writes:

>Paul Francis Gilbert wrote: 
>> 
>> Persnally, I'd rather get rid of the stupid flamers like Nathan. It's
>> ironic, actually. I'd really advocate a moderated newsgroup, but we'd just
>> end up like Delphi... in the A2 world passions run particular high, and it
>> would be difficult to find an A2 enthusiast to moderate who could do so
>> impartially (and not start mass-censoring the threads they don't agree with).

>	No, I don't believe that newsgroups (at least this newsgroup) should be
>moderated. Only thing that could be helpful is to set up some rules for
>posting, such as not posting vulgarities, profanity, or otherwise offensive
>and unnecessary posts.

Agreed. That's about the most we could hope for, although without moderation
there's no automatic enforcement of such rules. A similar case is the
posting of binaries... there's no theoretical prohibition against it, but
rather the opinion of the majority of readers in a particular group whether
or not it's socially acceptable.

My personal method of dealing with this newsgroup is to simply killfile 
anyone who gets too obnoxious. I held of killfiling Nathan for ages because
his posts were so pathetic they were amusing. But lately he's lost his edge,
and been getting boring... so I killfiled him.

That's probably the best solution in general for newsgroups: to give the
end readers more tools to filter out what they don't want to read.

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