Re: YASID "Sci-fi Books, Humans with Animal genes/modifications?"

On 3/16/2024 3:31 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 3/15/2024 9:57 PM, Ahasuerus wrote:

On 3/15/2024 7:49 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 3/15/2024 5:38 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

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Personally, I have no interest in reddit, with or without an account.

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I honestly find the reddit-hate on usenet a bit dissapointing. Perhaps
because its the closest thing to usenet, but is not usenet. [snip]

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It's true that Reddit is a collection of "subreddits" the way Usenet is a collection of "newsgroups". However, there are certain differences:
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1. All subreddits are moderated, which, as anyone who has had to deal with moderated newsgroups knows, is a double-edged sword. Reddit admins also function as site-wide super-moderators and can ban Reddit account.
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2. Subreddit moderators have to follow site-wide Reddit content policies, which have been known to change. To quote https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-code-of-conduct , "your subreddit and moderator team can be held accountable for individual moderator actions".
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3. Reddit has a "karma" system, which is based on other users upvoting or downvoting your posts and comments. Some subreddits require a certain amount of positive Reddit-wide karma to post and/or to comment. Reddit also requires a certain amount of karma to create new subreddits.
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4. Usenet clients are generally more robust than the default Reddit user interface. However, certain add-ons like "Reddit Enhancement Suite" (RES) provide additional functionality which is comparable to and sometimes even superior to what you will find in a typical Usenet client. I find the Reddit Enhancement Suite indispensable -- reading Reddit without it is painful.
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5. Usenet newsgroups are hierarchical -- "rec.arts.sf.written" -- which facilitates discovery. Subreddits are less structured.
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6. Curiously, Reddit spam is becoming more of an issue now that Large Language Models are better at impersonating humans.

 Need I point out that you are posting from eternal-september.org,
which exercises moderation of this newsgroup.
 In fact, most of us use ES specifically *because* rasfw here is
moderated, to filter out spam posts.
 Not all moderation is bad.

Oh, I didn't say that moderation was bad. I said that it was a double-edged sword. We have seen it on Usenet as well as on Web-based SF-related forums like Space Battles, Sufficient Velocity, Questionable Questing, etc. Different forums have different policies and different moderators apply them differently, which leads to various controversies.
Re: spam filtering, it's something that Usenet has been dealing with for a very long time. One of the first things that I saw when I subscribed to rec.arts.sf.written in April 1994 was an ongoing controversy over https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdar_Argic 's spam.