Re: Old Apple 2 Crackers & Pirates forum

[Pim Blokland <pDOTblokland@spcgroup.nl>]

Rubywand wrote:

> > Delphi is one such remaining place. It is the center of the remaining
> > Apple II world, as much as you may dislike the idea.
> 
>      No fair! You ask me to be serious and, then, start cracking jokes.

Come on, Ruby, it almost sounds as if you are bitter to have been thrown
out...

But seriously. I mean, whose side am I on anyway.

> > Nearly all of the new products for the Apple II come
> > from the same people you seem to love to insult.
> 
>      If you are talking about trouble makers who like to call newbies
> "pirates" because they download 15 year-old software from Asimov, those
> guys pretty much insult themselves every time they post.

It's even worse. Those troublemakers call newbies pirates, even if they
DON'T download software. They call them stupid, because they don't know
all faqs by heart. And they scare them away with all the strong language
they use.
I agree with Aaron that this is definitely *not* "FUN".
I would even go further and state that any site or newsgroup or chatroom
that is frequented by said troublemakers cannot be fun.
Therefore, I don't visit this group (or any of the
troublemakers-infested groups) because I "like" it here, but because I
can find useful information and insights here.

> > Now, we should also include csa2 in the list of remaining places to go for
> > Apple II discussion.
> 
>      Nice, since we probably have more readers each day than your forum
> gets in a month.
> 
> > Some people think it should be wiped from the face of
> > the earth,
> 
>      LOL  No doubt!

I disagree. Closing a group such as this would not silence the
flamethrowers. They would just go and rant elsewhere.
What we really need is a smarter kind of spam-blocking filter, one that
can remove rants as well. I would call it a "Filther" (short for filth
filter). This way, they would notice that their raving does not have any
effect and they will slowly wither away.
(Well, I can dream, can I?)


> > Either way you look at it, any intelligent person can see
> > that a good portion of csa2 posts are simply flames and lies.
> 
>      Actually, the flames and lies are way down recently. I guess we
> must be making progress!

Yes, I miss Nathan too.

> > csa2 is not fun. It's free, you can find information here often
> > enough, there are lots of people reading posts, but none of that makes this
> > place fun.
> 
>      Darn! What do suggest we do to make this a more fun place for you?
> 
>      How about a comp.sys.apple2.wordscramble sub-group? Or,
> comp.sys.apple2.romance?!

But does it NEED to be "fun"? Isn't "interesting" good enough a reason
to stay here? If not, we need a subgroup comp.sys.apple2.fun.
 
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