Usenet Addition Opinion

cfleck · #1 May 21st, 2005, 08:02 AM

I'm not sure when it was added as I can't find an announcement, but it is an insult to this site. Its flooded with the type of behavior that has driven me away from forums before. The trolling, cursing, ignorant behavior has no place here as far as I'm concerned as I was quite happy here prior to its existance.

I know I can hit the "new posts" button that doesn't include the newsgroup, but thats not the point. Quite frankly, I find it embarrasing to even be associated with something that harbors this sort of environment.

Maybe it is my own fault for reading it to begin with, but I can't help but believe it will attact people to the actual site to do the sort of things I mentioned above. Regardless, I've stated my thoughts, so now I'd like to see anyone else's. Write em down!

**ScottW** · #2 May 21st, 2005, 11:01 AM

We are still tweaking the importing feature, doing away with a lot of the typical troll posts and off-topic. A majority of these appear to be in the Mac Advocacy group and it is also the biggest, so it requires some work. Plus the importing feature has taken much longer than expected. Still not 100% complete.

The goal is to provide a more filtered Mac newsgroup selection. We have the ability to filter and not import posts that have certain keywords. Of course, until we see the actual threads/posts, we don't know which keywords an this means you will see some content that we would rather not see. Plus, you have the ability to flag any posts/threads and we can take care of it.

I suppose, it would not be to much to give the the option to OPT-OUT of all newsgroups, I will investigate if that can be automated.

nixgeek · #3 May 21st, 2005, 02:21 PM

I've started to exclude most of the postings from the newsgroups since I barely have enough time to read all of what's just included in this site. To add more stuff in there, although a great resource if you are looking for information or assistance (disregarding the annoying trolls), can just be a bit too much to consume for the likes of me, and possibly others.

**ScottW** · #4 May 21st, 2005, 08:46 PM

Okay, you can turn them on/off... see this thread.

http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthr...797#post799797

nixgeek · #5 May 21st, 2005, 09:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottW

Okay, you can turn them on/off... see this thread.

http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthr...797#post799797

Thanks.

ora · #6 May 25th, 2005, 04:58 AM

Another comment on this. Frankly i've seen nothing in any of the [NG] threads i'd ever want to read, too much trolling and arguments. The opt out is good, and i have opted out, but i still get [NG] posts when i use the search system (even though this isn't supposed to happen), which is irritating as the volume of posts there swamps the forum posts.

In the end i have to agree with cfleck, i really would prefer this site not to be associated with these newsgroups at all. As an alternative, maybe you could make it a wholly different area of the site, with different logon etc.

Zammy-Sam · #7 May 25th, 2005, 05:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottW

Okay, you can turn them on/off... see this thread.

http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthr...797#post799797

Ahhhh, finally silence.

**ScottW** · #8 May 25th, 2005, 09:26 AM

Well, I did have a period of that if you did opt-out that you may have still got some, but if you are still getting them, please advise. If so, which "forum" are you seeing?