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"Charlie" > wrote in message ... > > When I first started on web based boards I thought they were horrible. > Now I find them far better than usenet. The interface is much better, > the moderation gets rid of the dheads, photos are easily posted, sticky > topics, sub sections, yada yada. > Sometimes the moderation gets rid of everyone but the dickheads. Moderation is completely dependent on the moderator. Moderation can also often amount to a moderator being a rude arse sticking his nose into a conversation that's none of his business. When it becomes a territorial, dictator thing where you need to be a clone of the modertor (minus the power, of course - many suffer from the mentality that it's ok for them to have a cock and balls so long as no one else does), that becomes a worthless forum. Photos are good, but there's nothing stopping someone puting up a link here. |
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Byron Forbes wrote:
> Sometimes the moderation gets rid of everyone but the dickheads. > Moderation is completely dependent on the moderator. Moderation can also > often amount to a moderator being a rude arse sticking his nose into a > conversation that's none of his business. When it becomes a territorial, > dictator thing where you need to be a clone of the modertor (minus the > power, of course - many suffer from the mentality that it's ok for them to > have a cock and balls so long as no one else does), that becomes a worthless > forum. > > Photos are good, but there's nothing stopping someone puting up a link > here. I'm not trying to convert anyone, just putting forward a point of view. There are benefits to web forums, but the only real benefit I see to usenet is download speed, and that's pretty much a non issue with broadband. Charlie |
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Uwe Schürkamp wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:41 +0100 (BST), Andrew MacPherson wrote: > >>In article >, >>(Don Scurlock) wrote: >> >> >>>Plowing through multiple web >>>forums is way too tedious. >> >>I've said before in similar discussions that I wish some clever >>person would come up with a "newsreader" for multiple forums. You'd >>think it'd be possible, but I guess if it was simple someone would >>have done it by now. >> >>Andrew McP > > > Well, some forums offer RSS syndications which you could then add to > your firefox bookmarks or whatever, but that's nowhere near newsreader > functionality. > > cheers, uwe > Another option would be to just subscribe to the groups and have all the posts emailed to you. Write a rule to dump them in a folder and then you'd have pure text grouped by subject. I don't know if RSC offers email notification like that, but the SimBin forum does. Only thing is it just sends you the first post and then you have to go to the site and subscribe to the thread if you want to receive the replies via email (at least that's as far as I've gotten with it). Russell |
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"Byron Forbes" > wrote in message ... > > "Charlie" > wrote in message > ... >> >> When I first started on web based boards I thought they were horrible. >> Now I find them far better than usenet. The interface is much better, >> the moderation gets rid of the dheads, photos are easily posted, sticky >> topics, sub sections, yada yada. >> > > Sometimes the moderation gets rid of everyone but the dickheads. > Moderation is completely dependent on the moderator. Moderation can also > often amount to a moderator being a rude arse sticking his nose into a > conversation that's none of his business. When it becomes a territorial, > dictator thing where you need to be a clone of the modertor (minus the > power, of course - many suffer from the mentality that it's ok for them to > have a cock and balls so long as no one else does), that becomes a > worthless forum. > > Photos are good, but there's nothing stopping someone puting up a link > here. A fine description of RSC Byron - and, since this is the 2nd time I find myself agreeing with one of your posts, it's clear that therapy is now in order ... |
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"alex martini" > wrote in message ... > > "Byron Forbes" > wrote in message > ... >> >> "Charlie" > wrote in message >> ... >>> >>> When I first started on web based boards I thought they were horrible. >>> Now I find them far better than usenet. The interface is much better, >>> the moderation gets rid of the dheads, photos are easily posted, sticky >>> topics, sub sections, yada yada. >>> >> >> Sometimes the moderation gets rid of everyone but the dickheads. >> Moderation is completely dependent on the moderator. Moderation can also >> often amount to a moderator being a rude arse sticking his nose into a >> conversation that's none of his business. When it becomes a territorial, >> dictator thing where you need to be a clone of the modertor (minus the >> power, of course - many suffer from the mentality that it's ok for them >> to have a cock and balls so long as no one else does), that becomes a >> worthless forum. >> >> Photos are good, but there's nothing stopping someone puting up a link >> here. > A fine description of RSC Byron - and, since this is the 2nd time I find > myself agreeing with one of your posts, it's clear that therapy is now in > order ... > I'll book you an apointment with doctor Todt - he'll tell you what you want to hear! |
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"Charlie" > wrote in message ... > Byron Forbes wrote: > >> Sometimes the moderation gets rid of everyone but the dickheads. >> Moderation is completely dependent on the moderator. Moderation can also >> often amount to a moderator being a rude arse sticking his nose into a >> conversation that's none of his business. When it becomes a territorial, >> dictator thing where you need to be a clone of the modertor (minus the >> power, of course - many suffer from the mentality that it's ok for them >> to >> have a cock and balls so long as no one else does), that becomes a >> worthless >> forum. >> >> Photos are good, but there's nothing stopping someone puting up a link >> here. > > I'm not trying to convert anyone, just putting forward a point of view. > There are benefits to web forums, but the only real benefit I see to > usenet is download speed, and that's pretty much a non issue with > broadband. > The only thing I miss in here is a few good emoticons. Anyone know if emoticons for usenet is a possibility or maybe even in the works? |
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> Hey Byron - I got banned from RSC but am still alive here - does that me a survivor? ;-)
Why where you banned? Personally I quit RSC because of their policy of pubicly attaching warning label to their members. I got a warning for posting a link to a video that one of the moderators claimed was copywrighted, when in fact the video was public domain. When I explained that this false accuastion was the equivalent of defamation of character, the moderators at RSC got all nervous and asked me to re-agree to their policies, which I refused to do and I quit RSC instead, asking them to delete all my posts, which they did. As far as I know RSC is the only forum that pubicly adds warning labels to it's members. |
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