Unfortunately, rec.woodworking is something of a smorgasborg for trolls for exactly that reason.
The apppearance of the "false Dave Balderstone" as I predicted demonstrates that the troll is actively following this newsgroup and feeding off the responses.
Since newsgroups are the only true democracy there isn't much chance of anyone becoming a dictator. People just wouldn't participate in 'his' newsgroup and would simply move somewhere else. A PITA for sure but not really a dictator. Fortunately this jerk is a TROLL and isn't likely to do anything but stir up this otherwise 'bored' group ;-) TWS
I do find myself going to the yahoo woodworking group more and more. They seem to police it a little better and the trolls are almost non-existant and the racial and other belligerant type stuff just doesn't get on there.
Anyone who's using my filter file with Nfilter is not seeing that racial-epithet trolling at all. Which might account for lack of response to it. I didn't even know it was there until I visited Google Groups to search for more information about the other troll threads in hopes of finding something to filter against.
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Nah, that guy at least made a pretense at being objective. This guy has no subtlety and his only purpose is to piss us all off. Troll of the worst kind.
Nope, those of us not using your filter are seeing the headers and ignoring the sad, sick mind behind the posts.
The initial posting regarding moderation seemed close enough to plausible to illicit an initial response -- the other posts are so stupid as to flag troll to anyone seeing them.
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Not always. I've got my own filter set, and I was beginning to wonder why I was seeing totals up around 250 posts and finding about 25 when I opened the NG. I checked Google Groups and was really surprised that the lid had slipped off the outhouse again.
I dislike censorship in any form, but it does seem as if Google could offer some kind of filtering for their groups, or do some filtering before archiving such universally despised nonsense.
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Sort of. Not exactly over and over again. The troll posted on 12 January, and is getting a late reply to the same troll post. In this case, the problem is not the troll, but people responding to the troll after the troll has moved on to doing damage somewhere else.
I think a news-server somewhere burped and pulled up some old postings.
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