On Friday, March 26, 2021 at 9:49:18 AM UTC-4, Taxed and Spent wrote:
> 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.

Something tells me that a group like that would be too easy for everyone.