Re: The advantages of having a moderated newsgroup

On Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 7:37:39 PM UTC-5, John Corbett wrote:
> 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: 
> 
> [quote on] 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> [quote off] 
> 
> 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.

That does somewhat make sense. Nasty, though.