Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:52:27 03/26/99
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On March 26, 1999 at 20:33:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snip] >there is a solution: automated moderation. We set up a 'bot' that knows >three types of people: > >1. known 'good' posters. posts are auto-passed thru, but can be deleted if >they become offensive. > >2. known 'bad' posters. No posts allowed, period, all are rejected. This >would be where I would put Rolf, Sean, and 'company'. Fake accounts take ten minutes to set up. You don't even have to be smart to hack a header. It would probably be a lot better but I bet you would still have moving targets. In particular, one whinging twit on news:comp.lang.c kept changing his name and email alias so often that I killfiled his entire provider. >3. unknown posters. These can be auto-allowed, or auto-delayed depending. >Probably auto-delayed, or else you have Sean doing his 'multiple-ID thing' and >posting one offensive post and then creating a new usenet ID. > >It doesn't have to be a lot of work... Although it _can_ be. > >The problem with CCC is the 'interface'. This is _nowhere_ near as good as a >good threaded newsreader. Each article has to come over the net, while with >usenet this is done in a 'batch'. Much easier to read, and write, IMHO. > >But it is definitely quieter here than in r.g.c.c.... The biggest difference I see is killfiles. I am a killfile nut, and have a quick killfile trigger. Right now, there is very little in CCC worthy of that but it does surface from time to time. If CCC had a killfile capability, I would see very little value to a moderated NG. Do you know of a bot controlled moderated NG that actually works? There are only three moderated NG's that I interface with: x86 assembly languge, compiler construction, and c. Both news:comp.lang.c.moderated and news:comp.compilers have a two or three day lag between the time you post and the time you see your message. The assembly group does not suffer from that, but I think that is because the whole moderation thing was just to get rid of Scott Nudds (if you think some of the r.g.c.c. posters were a pain in the posterior, you should have seen his Usenet vomit trail). I suspect that they may have a bot that scans for him and let everything else pass. But that's just a wild guess.
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