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Home Depot politics
DavesVideo wrote:
An unmoderated news group should thus be moderated by the restraint of the posters. I have seen many newsgroups degenerate and become worhless due to off topic posting. They only become worthless if the off-topic posts are not easily identified, causing people who didn't care about them to waste time on them. If a thread drifts off-topic, whether it be towards a political discussion or name calling, it ought to be re-named. That doesn't always happen. When on-topic threads constantly drift into off-topic areas with no change in the subject line, that's what ruins a newsgroup. For example, the discussions about gardening that turn into name-calling sessions with no new gardening content are more damaging to the usefulness of this newsgroup than this thread, which very obviously has "politics" in the subject line. One can easily ignore well titled off-topic discussions even if they amount to 90% of the traffic in a newsgroup. But if the subject lines make it look like the discussion is on-topic, even though it's not, that can eventually make the group worthless. Well marked off-topic discussions only make the group worthless for people who have obsessive disorders that require them to read every message regardless of the subject line. -- Warren H. ========== Disclaimer: My views reflect those of myself, and not my employer, my friends, nor (as she often tells me) my wife. Any resemblance to the views of anybody living or dead is coincidental. No animals were hurt in the writing of this response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants to go outside now. Blatant Plug: Books for the Pacific Northwest gardener: http://www.holzemville.com/mall/nwgardener/index.html |
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