On 10/12/2014 1:56 PM, Michael Black wrote:
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
Hello .misc, .antenna and .homebrew! I've been watching with a degree of
sadness these last few days as Gareth Alun Evans G4SDW has poured buckets
of idiocy into .antenna. He's a notorious and pernicious troll with going
on for a two decade history of troublemaking on Usenet, primarily in
uk.radio.amateur but there have been many groups that he's upset over the
years, all in the archives.
Whatever he does in the UK newsgroup, we don't see it unless there is
crossposting. He posts, and half the replies are about his trolling
(which may or may not exist), and the only reason we see that junk is
because he's crossposting.
We were having a fine technical discussion in rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
when you saw fit to cross-post this, and so instead of that technical
discussion, suddenly the posts are about this. You've just made a mess
of the newsgroup, the thing you claim to want to fix.
We don't want a moderated newsgroup. rec.radio.amateur.moderated proves
that, it's existed for some years now, yet isn't seeing much real
traffic. A handful of posts each month, plus a lot of read only posts
that belong elsewhere, if they belong in newsgroups at all. The same
people who felt such a need for a moderated newsgroup are the same
people who don't participate, but they are also the same people spewing
the hierarchy with read only messages. So now the few non-read only
messages in .moderated are foolish replies to blog postings and
bulletins, as if the original poster is actually participating in the
newsgroup.
Speak for yourself. YOU don't want a moderated newsgroup. You do NOT
speak for me or many others.
And no, I don't read r.r.a.m. - but for my own reasons. I would,
however, be happy to subscribe to uk.r.a.m.
If we so badly wanted a moderated newsgroup, then .moderated would be a
success, lots of traffic and healthy traffic. But that's never been the
case. IN the early days there was a trickle of messages there, and it's
slowed down since.
There are many reasons why a moderated newsgroup doesn't work.
So don't think that a moderated newsgroup will save the day. It hasn't.
Michael
In YOUR mind.
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