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Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff)

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I share your diagnosis, I have not been here for quite some years and I
am surprised about the level of noise in this group.  For me this is a
group where I would like to pose technical questions about C programming
and discuss corresponding questions posed by others.

When I have been here last time there was quite a simple receipt how to
deal with noise; it worked rather well:

Don't feed the troll!

It is not really surprising that some people, i.e. the "trolls", try to
enforce their own topics on others.  I believe this is inevitable
because it is an unwarranted side effect of the freedom here, which is
more important to me than some notion of enforced purity.  What is
actually surprising me is that seemingly reasonable people engage in
troll-threads, even if only to express their disgust or make fun of the
troll.

If the more reasonable people would stop doing so, I could imagine that
the level of noise would reduce to bearable levels.


cheers,

Andreas
-- 
What do you mean? An African or a European swallow?

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This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-11-20 15:08 +0000
  [OT] About off-topic topics in comp.lang.c "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-20 23:17 +0800
  [OT] "off the rails" -> Ruby On Rail "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-20 23:26 +0800
    Re: [OT] "off the rails" -> Ruby On Rails "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-21 00:37 +0800
  Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2016-11-20 17:01 +0100
    Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-11-20 16:09 +0000
      Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-11-20 11:19 -0500
        Re: "Alla" "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-21 00:30 +0800
          Re: "Alla" jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2016-11-20 08:33 -0800
            Re: From "Alla" to Ada "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-21 00:36 +0800
      Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2016-11-20 17:19 +0100
        Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-11-20 11:23 -0500
          Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2016-11-20 17:35 +0100
            Re: counting occurrences "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-21 00:37 +0800
        Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-21 00:30 +0800
      Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) Manfred <noname@invalid.add> - 2016-11-20 17:23 +0100
      Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-20 12:09 -0800
    Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-21 00:28 +0800
    Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-11-20 09:40 -0700
      Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-11-22 06:49 -0800
    Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2016-11-20 20:38 +0300
      Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-21 01:41 +0800
  Re: the Crusade against Usenet "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-21 00:45 +0800
  Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2016-11-20 18:06 +0000
    Re: [OT] Christians influence "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-21 02:07 +0800
  Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) Andreas <nospam@invalid.invalid> - 2016-11-23 21:20 +0100
    Re: This newsgroup has gone completely off the rails (off-topic stuff) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-11-25 12:17 +0000

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