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OK, everyone, since some feel they have to respond to Mxsmaniac's posts, how
about being humane to all of us who don't want to read all of the crap that is following in his wake. It is easy to make a change to your reply, to help us all out. Simply position your cursor in the subject bar after the "" in the subject. Then, type MX, and then continue along your merry way with your post. This MX will allow every post after yours in the thread to be eliminated, by people who use a newsreader that can not filter entire threads, without a marker, but prefer not to read his ignorance and thread hijacking. This tactic has worked well in other groups. Please be kind to others in this group and take the time to help us block him. Thanks, in advance. -- Jim in NC |
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Morgans wrote: OK, everyone, since some feel they have to respond to Mxsmaniac's posts, how about being humane to all of us who don't want to read all of the crap that is following in his wake. What's to read? Skip any threads from him. It ain't rocket science. It is easy to make a change to your reply, to help us all out. Simply position your cursor in the subject bar after the "" in the subject. Then, type MX, and then continue along your merry way with your post. This MX will allow every post after yours in the thread to be eliminated, by people who use a newsreader that can not filter entire threads, without a marker, but prefer not to read his ignorance and thread hijacking. This tactic has worked well in other groups. Please be kind to others in this group and take the time to help us block him. So you are unwilling to just not read the posts so I have to do all the work? You're a bigger idiot than he is. |
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"Newps" wrote What's to read? Skip any threads from him. It ain't rocket science. That part is easy. What about the theads that he jumps into (nearly all of them) and other parts of the thread later down that are still untouched? Do I just write off any thread that he touches in any way? There will not be much left to read. This has been done in other groups. It works very well. You get to keep reading all of the nonsense, and I can read the parts that he has not polluted. We all win. So you are unwilling to just not read the posts so I have to do all the work? ALL of the work? A mouse click, a shift followed by two letters and a tab or another mouse click. Five actions, so even if you are a hunt and peck typer, that would be all of 5 seconds. That does not sound like much work to me. If it is for you, I feel sorry for you. If it was done by someone further up in the that part of the thread, you don't have to do a single thing. You're a bigger idiot than he is. Because I don't want to see this group torn apart? How does that make me an idiot, at that, a *bigger* idiot? Have you counted the number of other people begging everyone else to quit responding to this jerk? The number of posts? If everyone were to do this, that would all stop. I think you must be the idiot for not realizing this. If everyone will not stop responding, then this solution is the next best thing, for the health of the group. -- Jim in NC |
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"Dave Doe" wrote **** off Noddy. User added to Bozo bin. Oh, that really hurts, coming from somebody with a nobody name. Please feel free to ignore me. I know I will do the same for you. -- Jim in NC |
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"Morgans" wrote in message
... [...] If everyone will not stop responding, then this solution is the next best thing, for the health of the group. Anyone who insists on continuing to reply to his posts is not going to bother filtering him out. Your proposed "solution" isn't any better than just suggesting that people not reply to his posts. |
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"Peter Duniho" wrote Anyone who insists on continuing to reply to his posts is not going to bother filtering him out. Your proposed "solution" isn't any better than just suggesting that people not reply to his posts. Actually, that is not true. It really does work, and work quite well. Also, they are not filtering it out, but adding to the subject. It is still up to the reader that does not want to read the post to write a filtering rule based on the added MX or whatever. Over in the rec homebuilt group, there are at least 5 filter triggers like that, and most everyone is polite enough to use them, and add them, when needed. The problem is that there will always be somebody to respond to trolls, unfortunately. If they would only be as kind to add the MX, or whatever when they do, nobody that does not want to read that portion of the posts will ever have to complain about it again. We really ought to give it a try. It does work. -- Jim in NC |
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"Morgans" wrote in message
... Actually, that is not true. It really does work, and work quite well. Also, they are not filtering it out, but adding to the subject. It is still up to the reader that does not want to read the post to write a filtering rule based on the added MX or whatever. Well, good luck with that. I've yet to see any thread where there's been a significant "contribution" (such as it is) from him, and yet where I saw any need to continue reading the thread. I just junk the whole thread when he starts a thread down the toilet. Frankly, now that I've stopped trying to talk any sense into the guy, I've found his presence to be hardly disruptive at all. But, if you think you can get people to consistently change the subject just so you can exercise a filter, more power to you. Far be it from me to try to discourage anyone from following along. Pete |
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MX Z Z Z ZOOOOOOM
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Howdy!
In article , Morgans wrote: OK, everyone, since some feel they have to respond to Mxsmaniac's posts, how about being humane to all of us who don't want to read all of the crap that is following in his wake. It is easy to make a change to your reply, to help us all out. Simply position your cursor in the subject bar after the "" in the subject. Then, type MX, and then continue along your merry way with your post. This MX will allow every post after yours in the thread to be eliminated, by people who use a newsreader that can not filter entire threads, without a marker, but prefer not to read his ignorance and thread hijacking. This tactic has worked well in other groups. Please be kind to others in this group and take the time to help us block him. That "advice" ASSumes a lot about my newsreader. A lot that is utterly wrong. If you are advocating putting Mxsmaniac into a killfile, why not come right out and say so using the appropriate terminology. I think it would be more useful for people to tag their replies to Skylune with 'SKY'. Then I could more easily filter out replies to his rabid ranting ridiculousness. Mxsmaniac, by comparison, merely shows dogged ignorance -- something that *might* be treatable. I'm willing to stipulate that Mxsmaniac's determination is impressive, even. I would hope that your newsreader has some sort of killfile type function. If not, perhaps you need to reconsider the tools you use to read newsgroups. I'm using a tool that has been around for a long time, and it's had that capability since forever. yours, Michael -- Michael and MJ Houghton | Herveus d'Ormonde and Megan O'Donnelly | White Wolf and the Phoenix narrowwares Bowie, MD, USA | http://whitewolfandphoenix.com Proud member of the SCA Internet Whitewash Squad |
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