Re: A possible solution to the trolling problem on this news group

On 13 May, 16:48, Judith Smith <judithsm...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 07:03:31 -0700 (PDT), RudiL <rudilu...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

<snip>

So you would  ban some people from the moderated group would you?

Of course. That is usually the point of moderation. Sometimes it will
be a complete ban on certain people, sometimes it will just be on
certain posts. Sometimes a thread (e.g. yet another one on helmets,
none of which ever contribute anything new since that topic has been
done to death) will be terminated by the moderator with a "see earlier
discussion" type message.

Rudi

Interesting.

It is not the point of "moderation" at all - it is however the point
of "censorship"

I think that you may be thinking of "censored" groups. I must admit I
have never heard of them (other than urc)

Perhaps you can point out the charter of any moderated usenet group
which has a policy of banning named people.

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"Primary position" the middle of a traffic lane.  To take the "primary position" :  to ride a bike  in the middle of the lane in order to obstruct other road vehicles from overtaking.

A term invented by and used by psycholists and not recognised in the Highway Code.

Highway Code Rule 168 : "Never obstruct drivers who wish to pass."

If there were a moderated group in which someone were not allowed to
post they would not be censored as they can post in the unmoderated
one. However a blanket ban is probably unlikely - more likely is that
posts by what I will call "troublesome" individuals would individually
be passed to a human moderator who could pass them if they were on
topic and not boringly repetitious. It is up to the moderator to make
such decisions. If someone didn't like this they can go to the
unmoderated group, form their own group, or whatever. similarly if
other people don't like the moderator's policy they too can just stop
reading/posting on the moderated group and it would die.

Rudi
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