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Re: MVP's Can't you STOP the spammers?
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:33:38 -0700, "Bob Butler" <noway@nospam.ever>
wrote:
>"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message
>news:udewmHg1HHA.4184@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Bob;
>> As with Windows XP, the general newsgroup seems to be a catch all.
>> There are many Windows Vista newsgroups.
>> Many of the questions posed here are better answered in a different group
>> more specific to the issue.
>>
>> Unfortunately even the suggestion of someone posting to a more appropriate
>> newsgroup has some complaining that the person making the suggestion is
>> trying to control others.
>
>Understood; I have a long history with the newsgroups in other forums and
>have been through this many times. All I'm saying is that if people
>thinking ignoring the trolls is a pipe dream then I've got to wonder why
>they think constantly interacting with them is going to help. I'm not
>saying you shouldn't give new, off-topic posters the benfit of the doubt and
>tell them that they are in the wrong place... I'm saying that once it's
>apparent you have a troll the only thing that *might* work is ignoring them.
>I'd hate to see a potentially useful group get bogged down in all these
>long, pointless threads.
This newsgroup gets bogged down with guys like Jupiter that insist on
trying to be a net cop attempting to redirect people to other groups
if he thinks they shouldn't post here. Ditto when you hear MVPs asking
"...didn't you do research first?" and other annoying condescending
remarks that help nobody and only serve to feed their already bloated
egos.
Don't blame the messenger, I'm simply exposing the problem.
As far as trolls, that is in the eye of the beholder. Nobody is a
bigger troll than the idiot Frank. Yet none of the gutless wonder
fanboys ever object to his vile postings which in that twit's mind
only encourages him to continue. You reap what you sow. If you thing
the value of this newsgroup is headed South put the blame where it
belongs.
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