Re: Facebook goes mental

On 2025-02-03, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 07:54:59 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>

Any time you give control freaks "power" by making them moderators it
goes to their heads. Something I would NEVER want to do. Just makes me
tired thinking about it.

>
Years back I was one of the moderators on a moderated newsgroup. It got
rid of the trolls but it had been started mostly to rein in a Viktor
Rydberg fan. The group withered away. We used moderation software that had
a small yearly fee and after a while it wasn't worth keeping it.

misc.writing.screenplays went to misc.writing.screenplays.moderated with
just one moderation rule, no crossposts allowed. That got rid of the moron
who was posting obnoxious and stupid posts while advertising his psychic
horse crap. If he couldn't crosspost he wasn't interested in the group. But
even mwsm, some of the posters wanted to do more moderation. Until most of
the regulars went to Facebook, full moderation never happened. Shortly
afterwards they had it. Once, they turned it on. A month or so after full
(wait for approval) moderation, the group was basically dead. (No posts got
through for the first few months because the one moderator had some kind of
medical emergency and wasn't there to approve any posts at all.) Fully
moderated newsgroups are a waste of time. Killfiles are the better solution.

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