Re: Proposing alt.security.engineering

s|b wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 10:29:01 -0000, William Stickers wrote:
> 
> > <https://www.reddit.com/r/securityengineering/>
> 
> I read somewhere that over 50% of the messages on Reddit come from bots
> (Dead Internet is here). I know from experience that it's a toxic
> cesspool, similar to Twitter, and the whole system of
> upvotes/downvotes/karma is broken and set up to create negative feelings
> towards each other.

I couldn't care less about upvotes or downvotes and I only believe half of what 
I read anywhere anyway. The main thing these web forums have that usenet 
doesn't is traffic. Also they are moderated, so no flame wars and not excessive 
off topic posting. I prefer usenet to them, but there is no point flogging a 
dead horse and sadly usenet is limping towards the knackers yard.