On 3/26/2021 1:22 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> 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
>


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