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    From Todd M. McComb@21:1/5 to raymond.hallbear1@gmail.com on Thu Nov 21 17:54:50 2024
    In article <4dH%O.204996$pZ%.4704@fx16.iad>,
    Raymond Hall <raymond.hallbear1@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 22/11/2024 12:46 am, Roland van Gaalen wrote:
    I will no longer read, let alone participate in, this newsgroup.
    You can find me on Bluesky and on LinkedIn.
    Sorry to see you leave, but you are wise to do so. Nothing here
    to see.

    I'm sorry too. It's sad that so many people will let one --
    admittedly disgusting -- poster drive them away. Is it really so
    hard to ignore his posts?

    It's really something wrong about the internet that one person can
    clear a longstanding "room" full of people like this. If this were
    a physical space, the rest of us would probably all still be here....

    But the constant postings of hate & gibberish -- buoyed by his ally,
    sadly a long time poster -- will presumably continue. We could,
    of course, still discuss music....

    I wanted to support Roland's attempts to discuss music, but our
    interests don't align much, so that's an issue once the group gets
    to be small....

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  • From Todd M. McComb@21:1/5 to Todd M. McComb on Thu Nov 21 20:35:54 2024
    In article <vhns5a$1ll$1@hope.eyrie.org>,
    Todd M. McComb <mccomb@medieval.org> wrote:
    It's really something wrong about the internet that one person can
    clear a longstanding "room" full of people like this.

    And maybe I should add regarding the general figure of the "belligerent ignoramus" -- not only here, but many others in many places, including
    of course politicians... -- that it's hardly a new personality type
    or idea. The effectiveness of this sort of strategy, i.e. just
    come in & be as divisive as possible, leading to taking over, is
    clearly linked to the existence of the internet (& probably especially
    the moment-to-moment ubiquity of cellphones). There's just something
    different about buttonholing people on the internet.... Anyway,
    as a society, we really need to figure this out, unless we want
    mere divisiveness to continue morphing into some kind of
    super-strategy....

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  • From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to Roland van Gaalen on Thu Nov 21 19:40:36 2024
    On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:46:54 -0800, Roland van Gaalen wrote:

    I will no longer read, let alone participate in, this newsgroup.
    You can find me on Bluesky and on LinkedIn.

    LinkedIn is another closed site, not a discussion site.

    Bluesky, according to wikipedia:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky

    bsky.app

    is an open site, but it lied and it is not.
    Membership is required to see posts. My guess
    is there won't be much discussion there, and
    it'll be as dull as X.

    Can you link to a post or thread from bluesky on
    a different website? No, because it is a closed
    site.

    "Bluesky is largely analogous to Twitter in its structure.
    Users can send 300-character text messages, images, and
    video in short posts."

    So it really isn't a discussion site, just an X-like
    link farm?

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