Re: The advantages of having a moderated newsgroup

On Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 9:10:47 AM UTC-4, Pamela Brown wrote:
> 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... 
> 

I don't know if somebody finally took action but the automated posting of 
gibberish began yesterday at least as early as 6:00am and finally ceased 
shortly after 5:00pm. During that time 10-12 posts full of nonsensical 
gibberish appeared every minute. If anybody tried to make a post during 
that time, it would have quickly been swamped by the silliness. It makes 
you wonder how pathetic a person's life must be if they can get their 
jollies with such inanity.