Re: Anybody Got a filter for all this stupid political and religious arguements going on?

On 2025-03-08 10:36:40 +0000, Daniel70 said:

On 8/03/2025 6:57 am, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:
 

Anybody Got a filter for all this stupid political and religious
arguments going on? I just want to come in here and read about the
good doctor. not all the constant in bickering and asinine shit.
thankz in advance.
ME

 I subscribe to this newsgroup, then usually junk all articles without
reading, to de-yadify the rest of Usenet and because this newsgroup's
regulars spend more time troll feeding yads than posting on Doctor Who.
This is one of Usenet's worst newsgroups for off-topic crap.
 Of course, if you truly wanted to read on topic content, you yourself
would have to regularly post quite a bit of it yourself and hope on
topic threads would result. As you're unwilling to do that yourself,
then you contribute to the problem you've identified.
 Since I personally despise all of this newsgroup's regulars for the
nonstop troll feeding of yads (and previously, of Tim), I will continue
to subscribe simply as a method of cleaning out the unwanted crossposts
from newsgroups I care about.

 How in Hell does your reading garbage HERE stop that same garbage being cross-posted elsewhere??

It says "junk all articles without reading".
Depending on the newsreader app and how those posts are being 'junked', getting rid of them from one newsgroup also gets rid of them from any cross-posted newsgroup as well.
Similarly, reading a post in one newsgroup will remove it from the unread lists of other cros-posted newsgroups.
Filters / killfiles will do the same, unless you've set it to be specific to a particular newsgroup.

Sure, by removing all the cross-posted groups, you can stop your post and any replies to your post from being cross-posted from here to kingdom-come.... but that doesn't stop anybody else replying to the same posts as you but not removing all the cross-posts ... so their post still gets posted into the other newsgroups.
 I would have thought you would have understood that!!