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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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#97125

Noob:

> Wish I could take an axe to a few Internet connec-
> tions, and silence several trolls/kooks.
> 1) Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com>

The only practical measure is to ignore him until he
makes a post which may be considered a contribution,
i.e. answers somebody's question or gives some good,
non-trivial,  advice.   Unfortunately,  someone will
allways pop up who can't leave his one-liners  unan-
swered.   I  ain't  replying  to  none  of his noise
starting now, both here and in another newsgroup  he
has infested.

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#97126

On 21/11/2016 1:38 AM, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> The only practical measure is to ignore him until he
> makes a post which may be considered a contribution,
> i.e. answers somebody's question or gives some good,
> non-trivial,  advice.   Unfortunately,  someone will
> allways pop up who can't leave his one-liners  unan-
> swered.   I  ain't  replying  to  none  of his noise
> starting now, both here and in another newsgroup  he
> has infested.

I wish/hope you all left me laughing out loud (LOL), C Masters! :)

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#97115 — Re: the Crusade against Usenet

On 20/11/2016 11:08 PM, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> I'm really surprised Leader Keith hasn't stepped in and quelled the
> insurrection.  Usually, anytime something off-topic gets posted, Keith is
> there within an hour or two putting it down.
>
> Is Leader Keith on vacation or something?
>

BTW, do you wanna spread your Crusade to comp.lang.ada?

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#97133

On 20/11/2016 15:08, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> I'm really surprised Leader Keith hasn't stepped in and quelled the
> insurrection.  Usually, anytime something off-topic gets posted, Keith is
> there within an hour or two putting it down.
>
> Is Leader Keith on vacation or something?
>

Keith might have died but you are right to say that religious Rick and 
Chang has destroyed this and C++ newsgroups.

There is no way to get it back tom real business until these two 
protagonists die.

Even a Real Troll has restrained to spam these newsgroups!!!!!!!!!!!!.

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#97134 — Re: [OT] Christians influence

On 21/11/2016 2:06 AM, Real Troll wrote:
> Keith might have died but you are right to say that religious Rick and
> Chang has destroyed this and C++ newsgroups.
>
> There is no way to get it back tom real business until these two
> protagonists die.
>
> Even a Real Troll has restrained to spam these newsgroups!!!!!!!!!!!!.

You just spoke like a Christian, Your Crusader! :)

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#97360

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
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#97456

In article <87h96ykkxp.fsf@starless.invalid>,
Andreas  <nospam@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>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.

The trolling doesn't surprise me (in fact, I like it).  Otherwise, things
would be boring around here.

But what gets me is how Keith just seems to have completely lost his grip.
Why isn't he policing things?  Has he lost his mojo?

I.e., the real fun in CLC always was the constant battle between Keith and
the forces of good.  It was the conflict that made things interesting.

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