On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 01:45:25PM -0800, Mike Brown wrote:
quoted 16 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.
>
> 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.
If you want to see how bad a messageboard can get then look no further than
www.watmm.com/forum
Neil
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