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

Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:

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's a magical feature of my newsreader. I enter a newsgroup. I am
presented with an index screen of unread articles. The screen is
presented threaded, and I see authors' names. If theres anything to
read, which is almost never, I read it. Then I execute one of the
commands to junk articles, which also marks the article as read in any
newsgroups it was crossposted into.

I can de-yadify without reading an article, plus I get rid of all the
asshole troll feeders who refuse to cut yad's crossposts.

It's faster to mark articles as read that are total off-topic shit in
newsgroups I don't want to read than in groups that I do want to read.

. . .