On Monday, November 27, 2017 19:30:36 Mengu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:44:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu > > wrote: > > All: we have had an increase in troll posts lately. Please > > avoid engaging them and resist the urge to correct assertions > > no matter how wrong, indignating, etc. The best response to > > troll posts is spending the time that would elsewhere go in > > flamewars, on good work. Feel free to use your newsreader's > > "killfile" feature to filter away posts from aliases you assess > > have a net negative contribution to this forum. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andrei > > we should switch to a forum software. enough is enough. we can't > edit posts, we can't get rid of spammers and trolls. we don't > have proper code formatting / syntax highlighting. what is > holding you guys back?
I don't use the web interface for the newsgroup, and I have no interest in doing so. I use the mailing list. The same goes for many of the major contributors. Others use the newsgroup directly. IMHO, being stuck with any form of forum software would be worse than being able to use my e-mail client like I do now. Sure, editing posts would occasionally be nice, but it rarely matters much, and I've never seen the lack of formatting or syntax highlighting as being much of a problem. Plain text generally works for the sort of communication that we have here - certainly it's not enough of a problem for me to want to deal with forum software instead of a proper mailing list. Historically, spammers and trolls have only occasionally been a problem, and outright spam does usually get removed from the newsgroup. We have unfortunately had some major problems with a few recent threads where there have been quite a few troll posts in them. So, it makes sense for Walter and/or Andrei to speak up about it, but I expect that the problem will pass. It always has before. If we follow Andrei's advice and do better at ignoring the troll posts, it will blow over soon enough. And most of us don't really want to have to have anyone around here spending their time moderating. We spend too much of our time in useless chatter as it is instead of creating or reviewing PRs. - Jonathan M Davis