On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:15:08 -0400, 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.

Reddit. The most trafficked forums on the Internet these days.

I manage a reddit (group/forum) of 60,000+ carnivorous members and
we often get "brigaded" by the omniscient vegans and religious
freaks. And while creating multiple accounts and nyms is much harder
than on Usenet, you still can't ban those ****tards quick enough.

While there's not many tools left on Usenet to identify bad
conduits, it's even more frustrating on reddit. There's are plenty
of admins aware of the problems, but they are enigmas and don't use
their tools properly.

So I've devised a way to ban anybody in our reddit (group) who's
ever posted to a vegan/vegetarian/vegan-religious reddit (there's 24
forums you can post to that will ban you from our reddit). It's
merciless, uncaring, and unforgiving. You can appeal your ban, but
they go into /dev/null and nobody sees uour outcry. And if you
create a (few) separate account(s) just to post your vegan agenda to
this reddit, it will quickly be banned.

It's not perfect and there always be new people trying to be that
snarky gopher in the whack-a-mole game, but most seasoned redxditors
know better.

It would be trivial for RFC on Usenet to transform to that platform.
Our trolls and nymshifters would disappear. And we could ban John
every weekday between 6:AM and 4:PM while he's working and
collecting paychecks (heh!)

-sw