On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 12:30:11 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:

> Sadly, there are a few attention whores here trying to outdo each other.

A few? As well, don't forget that on Usenet there are 'ubertrolls' who
systematically target newsgroups for destruction. Presumably their plan for
world domination is to reduce the number of viable newsgroups to a list
that will fit onto the base page of their newsreader.

They occaisionally drop feelers here, but most of us killfile them out of
hand, either because we have seen them destroy other groups, or because
their MO is indistinguishable from that of unorganized 'simpleton' trolls.