Re: The advantages of having a moderated newsgroup

On Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 12:03:38 PM UTC-6, John Corbett wrote:
> Primarily it keeps most of the posts on topic and at least somewhat civil. 
> There is another benefit which became apparent this morning in an 
> unmoderated newsgroup I participate in. We have one regular poster who 
> likes to flood the newsgroup with off topic, moronic, and anti-Semitic 
> posts. He uses a variety of screennames but it is obvious it is all the 
> same guy. This morning he out did himself. Over the course of 25 minutes 
> beginning at 8:23 AM, he posted 274 messages. Apparently he spent 
> yesterday queuing them up for his morning dump (double entendre intended). 
> At 30 posts per page, anyone wanting to get to the on topic threads would 
> have to scroll through 9 pages of crap. Speaking for myself, having to 
> wait a half a day for a message to post is a small price to pay for not 
> having to put up with this kind of nonsense.

I don't always agree with McAdams' positions but I do agree that he is 
keeping that kind of nonsense out of this newsgroup...much appreciated...

Pamela