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Article #621177Re: Where is everybody? (cont.)
From: Mike Spencer
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 19:15
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 19:15
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Rob Morley <nos...@ntlworld.com> writes: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:04:54 -0700 > Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> wrote: > >> 1) What can you do to disruptive people? It is not as if you can >> lead them away from the polite people. Were we discussing in person, >> we could. >> > If someone is shouting at you "in person" you can't easily ignore him, > but if he's SHOUTING ON USENET you can just click "next". Usenet is like [1] a street party but with kill files. At a street party, if some drunken jerk starts hitting on a Sweet Young Thing, maybe her Big Brother and his jock buddies will deal with it quietly. But maybe not. And if some Clockwork Orange yahoos move in, everybody just goes home. Street parties don't have kill files and Call the Cops (or even the Big Brother gambit) can get very messy and in any case isn't very convivial. Kill files are pretty good but not perfect; worse, newbies essaying migration to Usenet find the kill file notion too technical, can't be bothered to figure them out. Malice isn't required for people to be distuptive. On a local group, we had 2 or 3 pottymouth belligerent yahoos. And one educated, even-tempered, otherwise intelligent guy who felt it neccessary to engage every yahoo post with reasoned debate. You can imagine how that went. Nearly everybody left the group. The putatively intelligent guy vanished for reasons unknown and the yahoos eventually went away for lack of adequate gratification. It's only gradually recovering a year or so later. [1] But see also: 5 blind men + elephant -- Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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