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... 
> 

This is an explanation from another poster on the website that got flooded 
with spam yesterday:

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The entire server at neodome, looks to be a Democrat counterintelligence 
spam server simply injecting FAKE posts to clog up the NEWS GROUPS. The 
first rule of AUTHORITARIANISM is the control of everything, and what you 
don't control you destroy..... so you control everything.

They control TWITTER AND FACEBOOK and CNN and MSNBC and they're trying to 
destroy anything that their political opposition can use to communicate on 
or get out any real NEWS ON.... remember in WWII the NAZI'S and the 
Japanese would jam signals and then they had counter intelligence things 
like TOKYO ROSE.... to fill the airwaves with lies.

You may NOT be at war but someone (DEMOCRATS) are waging a war against 
your freedom.

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I cannot speak to the validity of these claims however it is quite ominous 
if true. We know liberals now control the social media platforms and if 
they intend to completely clamp down on online political discourse, it 
makes sense that they would want to jam these various forums. Maybe 
yesterday was just a trial run to see what they could do. It was certainly 
effective for the approximate 12 hours it was flooding the newsgroup.