Re: request new group: Comp.sys.apple2.idiotic.flamewars.

[pfg@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Paul Francis Gilbert)]

"matthew p. conte" <spam@somebody.else> writes:


>Tom Padula <tjpadula@dowland.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>[...]
>> Given the dwindling support for this long-out-of-production format, I
>> have to say I can't believe the constant petty little power wars and
>> personal attacks going on here. This is ultimately descructive and
>> unhelpful to those of us that have an interest in keeping steam-powered
>> computers running, if only for hack value. They quickly lose that value
>> if the community undermines so visciously and consistently.

>tom, great commentary.  problem is, there is a somewhat unspoken war here
>between those interested in keeping the apple alive "for hack value," and
>those who can't come to terms with the fact that that is how the majority
>of apple users view the machine.

>late/matt.
>   _  _ _______________________ _  _
>  [itsbroke.at.ix.dot.netcom.dot.com]   "simple solutions created by black
>  broke | XGS-DOS | PC Atari Emulator     and white thinking - too bad the
>  \[http://www.netcom.com/~itsbroke]/          world not work that way..."

Exactly the problem. Just look at the latest drivel from Nathan Mates in
the whole Tangled Tales question (quite an icconent question, really). Dr.
Tom makes his article, and Nathan immediately posts accusing him of piracy,
drug addiction, attention deficiency syndrome (whatever the hell that is),
etc. 

Zealots like that should just be killfiled. The only reason I haven't done so
already, is that his posting are so damn funny. It's incredible to believe
that he actually thinks like that... if I hadn't already witnessed the
Critical Bill threads on comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure, and having read this
group for several years now, I'd suspect Nathan of being a professional
agitater.

It is hard to believe that someone could be so against... eg. piracy, Macs, 
etc. but not stop to consider that public defamation is just as bad. He
must use a convoluted set of double standards. Not surprising really.


That's why I think that it's getting to the stage where we need a moderating
control. There aren't that many posts that it wouldn't be possible to do
manual moderation, and have an automatic rejection system to reject posts
that contain certain constructs [such as swear words, derogatory words, etc.]
We could purpose that comp.sys.apple2 be retro-moderated [such as that which
happened recently with comp.lang.asm.x86 recently].


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