Re: Spamming this group - has ignoring it really helped?

Bill Steele <ws21@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ignoring doesn't make it go away because the trolls carefully
cross-post to several relevant groups and several irrelevant ones.
People in the relevant groups reply without deleting the irrelevant
groups and we get more copies of the same crap.

The solution is to reply immediately to these posts -- just add a word
or two -- and delete the irrelevant groups. Let the people who care
about the topic, however inane, fight it out on their own turf.

You do realize that your proposal doesn't even address the problem, much
less solve it, don't you? In fact, it merely *adds* to the problem,
because not only will troll-feeders *still* reply to the original
troll's post, cross-posting his and their crap to each group the
original troll was posted to, but we get those "well-meaning" replies in
addition.

Simply ignore the trolls, and they'll eventually get bored and leave.
Up to now that's the *only* strategy that has showed at least *some*
effect. Yours will just make the problem worse.

cu
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