quoted 13 lines If you think the posts are getting moronic now, you should see what happens
> If you think the posts are getting moronic now, you should see what happens
> when any idiot with a web browser can read and post. I was running some
> general message boards on Hyperreal for a while, and they utterly sucked. For
> every decent thread, there were fifty off-topic posts from trolls, bigots,
> spammers, and people who just clearly have not one single clue about what they
> are talking about.
>
> Yes, it would be "easier" but there is a huge price you pay for that
> convenience: even with user registration, the overall quality and the
> signal-to-noise ratio go WAY down. Using an old-fashioned mailing list that
> enforces plain text content raises the bar sufficiently to keep out most, but
> obviously not all, of the riff-raff. It's a bit like running a telnet-based
> chat server (these days) rather than full-blown IRC.
This is why the Warp forum got taken down. Introducing registration to it
didn't solve the problems and the comments from posters were becoming
offensive to the label staff. Some people just want to take and don't
realise what they are doing to other people. This could be perceived as
fascism on behalf of the label, or bigotry from the posters. Which is worse.
Warp decided they didn't want the people visiting the site to think that
their music was associated with a limited, vocal, few on the message list.
Rather sad don't you think?
... Have some care and attention.
Big up the Ninja crew for keeping their forum going. I know they've had shit
directed at their staff before and contemplated > /dev/null for the whole
lot.
I'm reading this thread alongside reading Cory Doctrow's "down and out in
the magic kingdom" [
http://www.craphound.com/down/ ] and can't help
wondering how Whuffle would affect this all ... Goes with my idea of a
distributed collaborative A&R system to replace record labels too ...
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