Has any one looked at uk,legal recently, absolutely not any sensible posts in sight
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Yes. It never used to be like this.
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There's also uk.legal.moderated which appears to be free of nonsense.
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That is the one I peruse, it is fine!
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You seem to have taken advantage of the rule which says that only really old jokes that everyone has heard are allowed in ulm.
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You clearly haven't read it :-)
A few days ago I posted a stupid insult/joke to it by mistake and it passed moderation.
In the past I have made pertinent, thoughtful, helpful, polite, posts which have been blocked.
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uk.politics.misc is ok. OK, if you have an extensive killfile.
usenet never moved on with sensible ways to control spam/rubbish. All the moderated groups seem to have excessive moderation.
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I believe they have a whitelisting system which means people who have proved sensible get their posts (unless they contain keywords which make them suspect) accepted automatically. Which means that such a poster can post one inappropriate post before (probably) being de-whitelisted. It is quite a busy group and the whitelisting is probably a good thing despite the risk of accidents.
Rejecting inoffensive posts is another issue.
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lol! blackballed, before I even knew I was on the whitelist.
Whitelisting sounds a bit racist to me!
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Lot of racists, though.
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A moderated group is OK with racism?
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It seems so, yes.
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shocking
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Something about keeping a list of the white people. It all sounds very sinister.
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totly
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well being white is ok being black is not ...
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I really can't understand why somebody spends their time setting out to trash a group so comprehensively
post a few trolls for fun seems believable
but posting 100s of pointless crap per day doesn't make sense to me
tim
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This is why I believe it's important to maintain a focus of this place being a (d-i-y related ideally[1]), practical Q/A site, not just someone's personal 'Thought Tourettes' / Twatter / Blog. ;-(
Cheers, T i m
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I think it is obvious that some people do not like free speech. I don't know if these are the people trashing uk.legal, but it would seem to be a sensible way of achieving the result. Trash uncontrolled public forums to push people into managed forums and then you can control the managers.
It would be nice if someone came up with a robust distributed way of promoting good content and demoting pointless crap, a bit like bit coin, but for opinions. I see poster voting used in places like Stack Exchange but I don't think it works very well.
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In message <r7pm0g$mej$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, tim... <tims_new snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com writes
I suspect that you are falling into the trap of thinking that trolls "think" in the same way that normal people do.
Adrian