A sad tale of two wrecked newsgroups

LdB · 2010-06-21T18:10:25+00:00

I would like to suggest that all of you regulars of alt.home repair take a look at the newsgroups and I have used the internet since the 1980's. Long before the days of the World Wide Web. This newsgroup as well as the groups were well established before I found them.The usernet has always been a favorite hiding place for internet kooks and trolls. They have almost completely overwhelmed and are now slowly destroying In both groups it was simply a matter of the troublemaker(s) posting off topic subjects of a political and personal nature that many of the less restrained members could not resist responding to. The resulting flame wars have driven off most of the serious users so that now both groups are little more than a bunch of kooks doing everything possible to annoy each other.One of the biggest Off Topic troublemakers in the group goes by the names Harry, Harry Krause, HK and probably a few others. He also likes to spoof the id's of others to stir up trouble when people don't respond to his posts or trolls, which is what it is all about in his case.Anybody on this group notice our Harry's. We seem to have a few. Some of our Harry's post normally. Some of our Harry's start threads like this:Interesting UK hand gun linkObama, dictator of America.The end of the world is nigh!Take a look at the state of those other newsgroups before you decide to respond to this one.If you are a Harry and consider yourself a serious user of this group I apologize for dragging you into the thread. If you are the Harry that posts off topic would you please explain why you find it necessary to do so. You do know there are many political newsgroups that would welcome those posts?For the rest of the home repair users, you have now seen what the trolls cando to newsgroups. You can continue on as usual or you can possibly think first before responding to a troll. Google Internet Trolls if you need a little more convincing that there could be a problem.To the Harry trollI can...

Jun 21, 2010 61 Replies

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Kurt Ullman 16 years ago

I still don't see the point. If you are still at the polite stage, then why plonk?

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cshenk 16 years ago

Grin, only 2 in mine that aren't those silly 'ladies watches' or whatever spam.

Yup! I find that unless I ask something that no one has any experience with (recently asked on Duro Shed brands after reading reviews), I get lots of good feedback. Just good folks here overall.

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