On 13:49 26 Mar 2021, Taxed and Spent said:

> On 3/26/2021 6:35 AM, Pamela wrote:
>> On 08:22 26 Mar 2021, Sqwertz said:
>>
>>> 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
>>
>>
>> "It's merciless, uncaring, and unforgiving. You can appeal
>> your ban, but they go into /dev/null and nobody sees your
>> outcry".
>>
>> You're not much of a salesman for a new group, are you?
>>
>
> sounds like a great sales pitch directed at those who want a
> useful, on topic group.

There's a sucker born every minute. Don't let me stop you joining
Squirt's "merciless, uncaring, and unforgiving" Reddit group run by
a narcissistic control-freak.