RadioBanter - Total meltdown?

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"Iitoi" wrote in message
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1. Start a radio club.
2. Maintain total control & ownership of the club repeater.
3. Have yourself elected permanent president of the club.

Now go away and play control freak.

Stagger Lee wrote:
On Sun, 7 May 2006 08:58:34 -0400, Dee Flint wrote:
:
: "Jim Hampton" wrote in message
: ...
:
: [snip]
:
: I did set up my controls and sent a number of folks to the trash bin.
: Unfortunately, almost nothing was left. There is little discussion around
: these parts about amateur radio policy.
:
: Perhaps I am missing something here, but I suspect that when the number of
: flames reaches a certain level, serious folks simply leave the newsgroup.
:
: That's pretty much true. Some of us though are waiting around for the
: flamers to finally get tired.

It's a little early to be positive, but it appears that you are
getting your wish.

It's a trap.

For the past 10 days, the flaming has died down
considerably. I now only see a handful of posts killed as my
newsreader opens this newsgroup. Two weeks ago, 50 or 60 posts would
be nuked each day, and almost nothing would be left behind.

Maybe business is up in the ER.

: As to control freaks, I prefer that folks drive on the right side of the
: road here in the U.S. Some rules appear necessary to protect the majority
: of users.
:
: Where safety is involved, yes we need such rules. But a bunch of junk news
: postings are only an annoyance not a safety issue.

Moderation (censorship) replaces one problem with another.

State the problem that moderation introduces, please.

If some
people think that moderation is a good idea, then they should have the
common courtesy to let the newsgroup users make a choice between this
newsgroup and a new, moderated group. Only the users can decide which
option is best for them.

Who are the users? They're almost all anonymous.

Attempting to "take over" the current group in order to force
moderation on its regular users is not only unlikely to work (too many
news servers will not respond to the control message),

The gulag system served the Soviets well.

it is also
arrogant.

What is arrogant are the incessant posting which have no bearing on
amateur radio.

The person proposing the moderation is not even a regular
here any longer.

He was once a regular. Wonder why he just visits now?

According to Google's profile, he has made a grand
total of four posts to amateur radio news groups for the entire year
of 2006!

That is an impossible assertion. This is only month 5 of the 2006
calendar.

*spit*

Ptui???

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Whilst the thought of a moderated group does not particularly appeal to
me,
I would be open to options that would get a newsgroup back to a
semblance of
what it was designed for. Kill-filing offenders leaves you with
nothing
around these parts today. Take a look in this newsgroup right now.
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I understand the issue here with moderation. Where I'm not going to
start quoting form "1984", I agree that heavy handed moderation is
unlikely to get you something that anybody wants to read as apparently
the open to everything buries the good stuff in too much noise that
nobody wants to sift though.

But the problem here is much like the trade offs in good receiver
design. To much bandwidth, to much noise to hear the desired signal,
not enough bandwidth and you will loose valuable information. Right now
we have a first IF that's way to wide and the meaningful stuff is lost
in the noise. Imagine trying to hear that CW signal when you have to
hear everything for 6Khz? You can do it, but why go though the pain?
Why would you try to listen to a SSB conversation with the 500Hz CW
filter in place?

Of course it all has trade offs. I'm not so sure that a bit of
bandwidth reduction might not be useful on this group. I'm a bit tired
of the flame wars myself however any attempt to do this must recognize
that disagreement (while not being disagreeable) is a good thing.

-= KC4UAI =-

blubbered & whined in a message...

of the flame wars myself however, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
KC4UAI

*FLUSHED*

//another psycho for the blocked-sender file//

PLONK

"Paul W. Schleck" whined in a message...
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Hey Control Freak, have you started your own radio club
and purchased a repeater yet?

"Saggtytits Lee" has been plagiarizing all along. What his M.O. is to
cut and paste others' words and add a few comments of his own so it
appears he did the entire body of work. He's an idiot, (says Steve
Gielda) and tried to net-cop others whose opinions didn't match his. Hr
tried to pass off an Alabama ARES website for an WV ARES organization.
He is a plain imbecile.

Stagger Lee wrote:
It's a more plagiarism

****UP Lee" geography idiot and imbecile ****s
up as
usual when he thinks Marshall County, Alabama and Marshall County, West
Virginia
are the same place in message :
" Then what is at http://www.geocities.com/skywarncanwarn/ doodle
brain?
It sure looks like the Marshall County ARES, and it even has a place
to send
email."