On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 06:49:14 -0700, 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.

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