Sick of trolls! 3726

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:59:48 +0200, Michael Heiming staggered into the Black Sun and said: snip

AOL. OTOH, someone once reported actually getting a useful answer to a question from col.advocacy, which just blows my mind.

I'd say that new users are likely to A) be using a client that doesn't *have* killfiles (like LookOut Express) or B) not know how to use their client's killfile functions. Shrug. Educate the users, sometimes that's all you can do. Maybe the twice-a-week FAQ needs a section on killfiles? (Of course, people *never* read the FAQ, but it's a place to start....)

This is something it's really difficult to quantify--especially since a lot of people seem to have given up on Usenet and have migrated to "Web Forums", etcetera.

Most web forums have one-several moderators who are there to delete content that isn't kosher and-or ban people who keep posting content that isn't appropriate. Being a moderator is usually a thankless, annoying, and tedious task though.

Hm. What do you mean "we", white man? :-) A comp.os.linux.moderated group may work, iff you can get enough people willing to do the moderation. Hundreds of posts per day, coming in all the time, would require 10 or 20 people scattered across the globe.

Never attribute to malice what can be perfectly adequately explained by stupidity and the "Greater Internet F**kwad Theory". I doubt that there's a big shadowy conspiracy out there--it's probably a few unorganized idiots, or a few loosely organized idiots, with too much spare time.

There's also the (mumble) used by ASR-ATSR, but that wouldn't work too well for a place that wants to encourage new users.

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