From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,544c98121879c710 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,ca641b3dcee9ee4 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f9437,544c98121879c710 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9437,public X-Google-Thread: f9437,ca641b3dcee9ee4 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9437,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,544c98121879c710 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ca641b3dcee9ee4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b99334cb89bcb335 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ca641b3dcee9ee4 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,544c98121879c710 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,ca641b3dcee9ee4 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,544c98121879c710 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ca641b3dcee9ee4 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: "Phlip" Subject: Re: RFD: comp.object.moderated moderated Date: 1998/10/12 Message-ID: <6vtq99$8i1$1@news0-alterdial.uu.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 400379465 References: <907918039.22235@isc.org> <36210B47.6A5FE581@eiffel.com> <6vt32u$5mp@chronicle.concentric.net> <36226A36.6E162F42@s054.aone.net.au> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Loryn Jenkins wrote: >> Trolling works by exploiting this cascade effect to fill a group up with >> crap. Kill-files work against unsuccessful trolls, but even if any >> "critical mass" of forum subscribers kill-file a troll the group still >> fills up with a cascade of useless crap. This "pollutes" a forum by >> making lurkers avoid reading good posts - you never know which ones they >> could be in a trolled thread. > >Haven't you ever explored the functionality netscape messenger gives to: >to "ignore thread", at any point in the thread tree? Messenger, Outlook, Gravity, ns; they all have no feature called "Add all the posts that lurkers were going to write to add value to the thread but did not because a Troll destroyed it." _That_ is the feature that the comp.object.moderated push tries to provide. -- Phlip at politizen dot com (address munged) ======= http://users.deltanet.com/~tegan/home.html =======