At 03:45 PM 2/22/2003, Mike Brown wrote:
quoted 10 lines Jason Vorhees wrote:>Jason Vorhees wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be easier if there was a messageboard
>
>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.
Additionally, the noise part of "signal to noise" has historically been a
part of IDM-l (as much as it is of IDM) for ages.
It's like philosophical trends...the pendulum swings this way and that.
Sure it can be annoying and insipid. Everybody gets close to and some do
unsub. There are moderated lists (Lance's idm-m via yahoogroups is a great
alternative) for those who get tired of the noise factor. The grain of salt
you take with this list *is* the possible advent of irrelevant ballyhoo.
People mark themselves; if anybody gets too noisy, the killfiles go up (I
suspect most of us have filters which have for their targets IDM-l posters)
and the public censure comes down. The list has a certain charm about it
and an atmosphere which, to some extent, lends itself to noise and sarcasm.
Not to champion the idiotic, but just to say that an email list without
heavy moderation pays a certain price for its "freedom". That's the way it
be sometimes.
jeff
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