children in adults' bodies
Apr. 12th, 2003 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioI run a moderated "mirror" of an unmoderated mailing list. In other words, I edit a filtered feed, cutting out the spam, off-topic posts, gratuitous HTML, duplicate postings, and misdirected personal replies.
Recently (sometime during Shabbat) someone posted a long, off-topic message on a controversial subject. This was unwise. Someone else then posted a reply saying, effectively, "keep your off-topic drivel off this list", which was unwise, misdirected, and somewhat childish. Someone else posted twice, saying (and fully quoting the messages both times) "yay" and "pbbbttttt" to these messages, which was unwise, misdirected, and definitely infantile. Other people have responded to all of that. And then, the AOL/raspberry guy posted something saying we shouldn't be continuing this discussion, to which he'd already contributed noise.
All in under 24 hours.
Children, children, children... can't live with 'em; can't shoot 'em. But y'know, every time something like this happens I pick up another subscriber or two for the moderated list. :-)
Recently (sometime during Shabbat) someone posted a long, off-topic message on a controversial subject. This was unwise. Someone else then posted a reply saying, effectively, "keep your off-topic drivel off this list", which was unwise, misdirected, and somewhat childish. Someone else posted twice, saying (and fully quoting the messages both times) "yay" and "pbbbttttt" to these messages, which was unwise, misdirected, and definitely infantile. Other people have responded to all of that. And then, the AOL/raspberry guy posted something saying we shouldn't be continuing this discussion, to which he'd already contributed noise.
All in under 24 hours.
Children, children, children... can't live with 'em; can't shoot 'em. But y'know, every time something like this happens I pick up another subscriber or two for the moderated list. :-)
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Date: 2003-04-12 05:58 pm (UTC)(and usenet, and BBSes... been there done that)
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