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Off and on topic in rec.boats.
Despite the netcops, rec.boats was working just fine until they appeared.
Think of it like your YC bar. Not all are discussing boats, religion and politics come up a lot, so do women. People disagree, some storm out in a huff. Recently other than boating topics were labeled (OT) to make it easy for those who were not interested to filter out. Without the OT, there would be little discussion here, Although I have never asked a boating question without someone offering helpful advice. Face the fact that netcops don't work, they rile people who will post just to harass them. If you REALLY want to stop OT, just ignore the OT posts (but that would make for a dull group) For the purists, the filter on OT should work just fine For the wannabe netcops -- get a life! |
Jim,,
The netcop is an common reaction to a NG that has been overtaken with political trolls. I find his posts a troll and just as offensive as the other OT trolls. To use your analogy, Think of it as your YC bar. The OT posters are the drunk obnoxious guy at the end of the bar. Some people will ignore them, some people will pick a fight with him, some will try to call the cops and have them escorted out. The truth of the matter, is the YC bar will have occasional drunks, but if the bar is overtaken by local drunks, so the YC members can not enjoy themselves any more, than it is time to try to do something to bring some kind of order. Since rec.boats is overloaded with drunks, what do you recommend we do? "Jim," wrote in message ... Despite the netcops, rec.boats was working just fine until they appeared. Think of it like your YC bar. Not all are discussing boats, religion and politics come up a lot, so do women. People disagree, some storm out in a huff. Recently other than boating topics were labeled (OT) to make it easy for those who were not interested to filter out. Without the OT, there would be little discussion here, Although I have never asked a boating question without someone offering helpful advice. Face the fact that netcops don't work, they rile people who will post just to harass them. If you REALLY want to stop OT, just ignore the OT posts (but that would make for a dull group) For the purists, the filter on OT should work just fine For the wannabe netcops -- get a life! |
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:55:06 GMT, "Jim," wrote:
~~ snippage ~~ Think of it like your YC bar. Not all are discussing boats, religion and politics come up a lot, so do women. People disagree, some storm out in a huff. The problem is that the OT stuff is all a one note samba. It gets a little much after a while. Later, Tom |
Since rec.boats is overloaded with drunks, what do you recommend we do?
************** The best technique is probably to ignore the people you find truly objectionable. Ignoring them doesn't include publishing a long list every few days of the folks you have recently filtered, either. (see netsock, Harry, and a few others). A genuine jerk walks into the bar, hoping to start a fight. If he walks around for five minutes acting like an idiot, tossing insults, etc etc etc and nobody pays much attention- he will soon realize that he's making a total fool of himself without achieving his desired end. The cut 'n paste non-boat items, whether "Good News from Iraq," or "Bush Texas Oil Cronie Indicted in Oil-For-Food Swindle" would be more appropriate somewhere else, I agree. However, this particular bar has earned a reputation as a good place to pick a fight. It is amusing to observe how the reactions of various individuals to the presence of specific OT threads will vary with the poster's political frame of reference. We have several examples of people yelling and screaming about conservative off-topic posts while remaining silent or participating in the moderate or liberal OT's.......as well as several examples of exactly the opposite. Anybody who participates, at all, in OT threads has no moral right to complain about others doing so. That would include our remailing netcop, and you. Myself as well. |
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