Courageous wrote:
Nothing can be done.


This is not actually true.

rec.ponds could become moderated.

It's fairly easy to arrange, and not anywhere near as cumbersome as most
people think.

Moderation software even allows you to set up accept lists. These can be
as finicky as specific ip addresses of origin, or even hardware mac addresses.

C//

You really think you know more about moderation, and the
(un)likelihood of success with it than your news admin?

You think you can retro-moderate an unmoderated group, no less one in
the rec hierarchy?

You don't even know what group to post the QUESTION to, and cross post
to NANAU of all places!

Just because moderation software is easy to obtain doesn't mean that
moderated groups are easy to set up and manage long-term ...
especially not one in the rec. hierarchy! And they are ALWAYS the
wrong answer to a troll, just giving the troll even more power than
before.


More putting it off on others instead of doing what YOU should do, eh,
Carol?


I know, let's go create a new group that everyone should have to move
to just because Carol is incapable of controlling herself! That'll
really show Jabriol, especially using auto-moderation trying to keep
out a troll! (Far easier to just filter out Carol completely, and
not even read her pond-related posts, since she keeps defending her
inability to SHUT UP.)


snicker It would be funny if it wasn't so sad that you really don't
get how easily you could get rid of him, if you -- one person, Carol,
YOU -- would just SHUT UP.


x-posts modified to more appopriate groups and with apologies to
rec.ponds, whose readers are hopefully killing cross-posts now.

http://www.swcp.com/~dmckeon/mod-faq.html

-- DE