Can we do something about all this ANNOYINGLIY increasing amount of
ANNOYING ADS?
Like, enable all posting REAL users as mods, and only allow mods to
post, and allow mods to make other users mods,
Or: make me admin so I can delete all the spam or something
Or: need members to be accepted by admin, and make many members admin
so that there will always be someone there to accept them..
Because it's so bad.
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That would be an awesome idea if this was a user forum. However it is
a USENET group, thus unmoderated.
thepathofblood.com, however, is moderated. Come join us, the water is
lovely, and there are no spambots
> That would be an awesome idea if this was a user forum. However it is
> a USENET group, thus unmoderated.
I think this group runs off of an IBM supercomputer terminal from 1970
somewhere in the mountains of Turkmenistan. In order to service the
page, expert sherpas have to scale the mountains using only a tattered
leather map and a divining rod for direction. Once they reach the
entrance to the cave, the sherpas refuse to go in; on the the Chosen
One is allowed inside. When, or if, the Chosen One enters the cave, he
will be tested before gaining access to the server. The first test
includes reciting card text, verbatim, for all 326 Jyhad cards *as
they were originally printed.* The second test requires the Chosen One
to complete a JOL game played on their cell phone using only a
stationary bicycle for power and bread and water for sustenance. The
final test that the Chosen One must endure in the cave is to answer
the Riddle Phantastique under the 1994 Madness of the Bard rules, no
do-overs. The text of the riddle is, of course, forbidden to infidels.
Upon completion of these three tests, the Chosen One gains access to
the server room. What dangers lay in wait in the server room are
unknown; only the Chosen One may enter. It is believed that unwanted
server messages may be removed by carefully scratching the magnetic
strip on the hard drive device. Failure on any part of these tests is
certain death for the Chosen One, and, in all likelihood, the end of
the world(server) as we know it.
The challenge is almost insurmountable, but the reward is for the
benefit of all. Will the Chosen One take up the quest? Only time will
tell. Until then, we wait.
Brandon
brandonsantacruz@yahoo.com wrote:
>> That would be an awesome idea if this was a user forum. However it is
>> a USENET group, thus unmoderated.>
> I think this group runs off of an IBM supercomputer terminal from 1970
> somewhere in the mountains of Turkmenistan. In order to service the
> page, expert sherpas have to scale the mountains using only a tattered
> leather map and a divining rod for direction. Once they reach the
> entrance to the cave, the sherpas refuse to go in; on the the Chosen
> One is allowed inside. When, or if, the Chosen One enters the cave, he
> will be tested before gaining access to the server. The first test
> includes reciting card text, verbatim, for all 326 Jyhad cards *as
> they were originally printed.* The second test requires the Chosen One
> to complete a JOL game played on their cell phone using only a
> stationary bicycle for power and bread and water for sustenance. The
> final test that the Chosen One must endure in the cave is to answer
> the Riddle Phantastique under the 1994 Madness of the Bard rules, no
> do-overs. The text of the riddle is, of course, forbidden to infidels.
> Upon completion of these three tests, the Chosen One gains access to
> the server room. What dangers lay in wait in the server room are
> unknown; only the Chosen One may enter. It is believed that unwanted
> server messages may be removed by carefully scratching the magnetic
> strip on the hard drive device. Failure on any part of these tests is
> certain death for the Chosen One, and, in all likelihood, the end of
> the world(server) as we know it.
>
> The challenge is almost insurmountable, but the reward is for the
> benefit of all. Will the Chosen One take up the quest? Only time will
> tell. Until then, we wait.
>
>
:-)
brilliant.
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The problem with moving to a moderated group, given the historical
nature of communal groups like this one, is that everyone being used
to their absolute freedom are unwilling to trust any person or persons
in even the most minor of regulation of that freedom.
So, not a chance in hell.
> Because it's so bad.
There is absolutely NOTHING that you can do about the spam,
which would be a good use of your time. Sorry about that.
Congratulations. You are witnessing the end of USENET. It's been
years in the making. I'm suprised it hasn't happened earlier.
Kevin M., Prince of Las Vegas
"Know your enemy and know yourself; in one-thousand battles
you shall never be in peril." -- Sun Tzu, *The Art of War*
"Contentment...Complacency...Catastrophe!" -- Joseph Chevalier
Please visit VTESville daily! http://vtesville.myminicity.com/
Kevin M. wrote:
> There is absolutely NOTHING that you can do about the spam,
> which would be a good use of your time. Sorry about that.
>
> Congratulations. You are witnessing the end of USENET. It's been
> years in the making. I'm suprised it hasn't happened earlier.
Imminent death of Usenet predicted. Film at 11.
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What you are saying sounds over the top in either a sarcastic or
entirely fed-up way, I can't tell. What would you say about moving
over to the WW forum? It is already moderated (I believe).
Brandon
[ quoted text not captured ]> Brandon- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven -
>
> - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven -
I'm up for that. Would be good IMHO for newbies so they can more
easily find the most active discussions/players as well.
If/when we do, maybe WW could make some archive of all the LSJ ruling
threads as well for easy reference, or else we can't say "jeez, just
search 'LSJ <card a> <card b>, and there's your answer!" anymore. :-)))
"Undre" <sis...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:07738770-424e-4518...@x5g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
> Can we do something about all this ANNOYINGLIY increasing amount of
> ANNOYING ADS?
Actually, I believe the "ANNOYING ADS" have been around since always,
for always... Well, not really, but the Use-Usenet-For-Commercial-
Purposes tension has been around since the 80s at least - which was
before I started reading it so maybe it goes back longer than that.
I have noticed quite a few ads on the newsgroup today, which is very
unusual. What has been happening for at least the last 15 years or
so is that certain organizations have been active in "spam canceling",
my term for it. That is, when they see a blatantly spammed ad, they
send out a cancel message which takes it off any newsgroup server
that subscribes to that particular organization's cancel messages.
Subscription is always voluntary. No newsgroup server has to pay
attention to any cancel message, not even one that comes from the
original poster. But by subscribing to the cancel messages of more
or less trusted spam-cancellers, newsgroup servers have tended to
keep their newsgroups pretty clean of the stuff. You might see one
or two from time to time - but then they disappear as the cancel
message comes through. And normal users like you and I shouldn't
really need to do anything about this kind of stuff, the real blatant
off-topic advertisements. (Stuff that pops up in a single newsgroup
only is a different story. Spam cancellers aren't gonna worry about
that stuff normally.)
For some reason, it doesn't seem to be working as well as normal
this week on the server I subscribe to. I'm not sure why.
Fred
In article
<b4675631-9415-4ef9...@j18g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
brandons...@yahoo.com wrote:
> What you are saying sounds over the top in either a sarcastic or
> entirely fed-up way, I can't tell. What would you say about moving
> over to the WW forum? It is already moderated (I believe).
The VTES specific White Wolf forum is (well, was--I haven't been over
there much since they changed forums) fairly active and full of both
older and new players (Coupe and LSJ are always there to answer
questions; I was farily active before the reboot, as were Jeff and Eno
and many other NG regulars). So I'm not quite sure what it would mean to
"move over" to the WW forum.
In terms of abandoning the NG, I can't see any advantage to that. People
already post in multiple forums and groups. Personally, I find web based
discussion forums infinitely less attractive than usenet, but that is
me. I don't like the non threaded aspect of forum discussions (i.e. the
"I want to respond to the first post in the thread, but I end up on page
6..."), I don't like all the dumb bells and whistles (i.e. little
animated avatars and screen names and little awards that build up in
your profile and the pretty frames and banner adds and whatever. But
then I'm old and miss Mattlock...). Good newsreaders are reasonable
diligent about filtering out spam, and yahoogroups at least gives you
the minor satisfaction be being able to report spammers.
Peter D Bakija
pd...@lightlink.com
http://www.lightlink.com/pdb6/vtes.html
"It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?"
-Gaff
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I thought we just got 4 alcoholic frat-boys, put them into the Toy
Chest Test and tossed the chest off Puget Sounds... if you can make it
to the server alive, we let you have the password... or is that access
to the Sabbat server (ponders)...