On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:34:07 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 1:15:15 PM UTC-10, Boron Elgar wrote:

>> RFC has a not atypical contingent of truly crazy posters, but those
>> are not the problem. I don't mind the lunatic fringe or the whacko
>> political agenda types, but some folks go to a LOT of trouble to drop
>> all these extraneous bullshit "guess who I am imitating today?" posts.
>> That is its own branch of WTF loon.
>>
>> I have never seen a group on any community platform/forum even going
>> back to the early 80s, with as much nymshifting dreck as this one
>> always has. Facebook is a world unto itself, but I gave that up so
>> long ago, I have no idea what's there these days.
>>

>
>Usenet just ain't usenet anymore. Back in the old days, the posters were mostly from military, educational, scientific, research, institutions. They used the facilities available through their institutions and therefor, were in fact, representing their organizations. My guess is that any bad behavior was easily squelched by being held responsible for your words. These days, all those right and proper people and replaced by the socially, morally, and mentally, inept. Back in the old days, bad behavior would be going off topic. That's the breaks.
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>https://groups.google.com/g/rec.food...m/XKTmFKanfKYJ

Comments on civility even back then! There were always some wild
Usenet group

I did not get involved in Usenet until a couple of years after that -
def in the mid 90s, tho, because I recall all the Clinton insanity. I
was still mostly hanging out on IRC and BBS for the most part.

Think we had a dial up here at home- maybe still had one at the office
in the early 90s.OH, and in those days, the thought of a moderated
group was horrifying!

Reddit is much more productive for me these days and I can hone in
only on what I want to read, and keep to moderated groups so the ads
and crap are at to a minimum.