Moderating rec.woodworking

Given the fact that we just went through this with a *real* proposal and

;-)

not me... I already spend several hours a day wrecking wood.. (but I have lots of really cool kindling)

mac

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having spent many pleasant years on newsgroups, and I've seen many dry up and blow away. the chief cause of NG death is lack of interest, usually cause by getting your wish, a strictly on-topic, polite place to not spend time..

If you look at the threads that gather the most responses, you'll see that most of them are OT or stated on-topic and went OT quickly.. that's a GOOD thing... newsgroups are made up of people, and people bs, tell jokes and talk about a wide range of things... take that away, and the only sound you'll hear is the echo of your own farts..

mac

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yes, and considering the next step after net nannies, what type of scrap wood is best for burning books?

mac

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I thought that the health hazard was reduced quite a bit when the msg was filtered??

damn! that was off topic... I think I hear a black helicopter coming this way..

mac

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it sounded a whole lot like "it's my football, and if I can't be quarterback, I'm going home" s*it to me... except in this case it's OUR football..

mac

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good job, Tom... I was going to reply to him, but couldn't think of enough one syllable words...

mac

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If the troll isn't really Robert, and you do that, the troll wins, big time..

mac

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but we had FUN, Gino.... if you read any of the posts, it was more like a big joke than anything else..

mac

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Uh, there was a serious attempt to create a moderated group a while back, led by one nutcake. Went to a vote, he won the vote, then it turned out that there were so many irregularities in the voting that the Powers That Be decreed that another vote be taken, which he lost.

This could be the same guy and if everybody ignores him then he might win his vote by default and become the moderator, which in his case will be semantically equivalent to "dictator".

Actually, he's neither, he's a reactionary troll with Revealed Truth.

It's precisely because "a lot of beating" occurred that it took so long for the troll to go away. Trolls seek attention; when they are denied it in a particular venue, they go elsewhere in a big hurry. Witness, for example, the case of Bay Area Dave, who disappeared within a few days after the group finally reached a public consensus to never, ever, respond to any of his posts.

Best to ignore it altogether.

For starters, the post is a lie.

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

Get a copy of my NEW AND IMPROVED TrollFilter for NewsProxy/Nfilter by sending email to autoresponder at filterinfo-at-milmac-dot-com You must use your REAL email address to get a response.

Steve Says: no one moderator could do the job anyway. it would take several dedicated people. ok who has several hours a day to spend on wreck.wood??

I could If everyone made there charitable contribution checks made payable to "Knothead" we'll give 'er a go. Funny though the only person I could imagine censoring would be the worm that started this thread.. I'll get my paypal account set up right away ;-)

Knothead

Moderating a newsgroup as active as the Wreck is normally done primarily by a robot and secondarily by humans who write scripts for the robot and make sure that it is running.

Posting messages claiming that a group as active as the Wreck is about to be moderated is done by a subspecies known as a troll.

- - Bob McClenon

Including a false Dave Balderstone.

What the troll did was to illustrate that a large number of rec.woodworking posters are not familiar with what a troll is and how to respond to it (typically by ignoring it).

- - Bob McClenon

Your history is a little off. There was no second vote. After the PTB decreed the vote invalid, the original creator of the RFD withdrew his second proposal.

- - LRod

Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite

Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999

Tommy: Can you do "Rubber Biscuits?" (Obww) Something along the line of, "If it (the troll) don't bounce back...you go hungry."

Bob

Not so--note that nearly all are ignoring the racial epithet trolling now going on. The moderation thing, on the other hand, is a hot button for the group.