engineer software that prevents front page hogging Re: How to handle the J. Mcginn and S. Wormley front page hogs-- report as Google spam abuse

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Subject	engineer software that prevents front page hogging Re: How to handle the J. Mcginn and S. Wormley front page hogs-- report as Google spam abuse
From	Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com>

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On Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 9:45:12 PM UTC-5, Ross A. Finlayson wrote:
> On Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 7:19:09 PM UTC-7, Wally W. wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 18:47:35 -0500, Sam Wormley wrote:
> > 
> > >sci.physics is an unmoderated newsgroup dedicated
> > >to the discussion of physics, news from the physics
> > >community, and physics-related social issues.
> > 
> > Why would anyone feel a need post an excuse for their posting habits
> > as a sig?
> > 

Hi Ross,

It was recognized in 1993 what spam was, but it was not recognized in 1993 of people who try to dominate the front page of a newsgroup. There was the advertisement of "solutions manuals" which for a short time was front page hogging.

We appall censorship, and we expect for ourselves to have freedom of speech and ignore and do not read posts that upset us.

But, Ross, you can accept the idea that front page hoggers are censors. That their behaviour is that of censorship. They intend to knock other posters off the front page so that having your post buried in 15 minutes after sending, is a form of censorship. Front page hogs like Wormley and AS and JMcginn censor away the posts of others by knocking those posts to a page that most onlookers and newcomers seldom look.

Front page hogging is censorship because their aim is not science discussion but rather domination of front page.

So, Google needs a means of throttling or thwarting those that desire to dominate the front page rather than want to do genuine science discussion.

Sci.math used to have a front page hogs of WM and JG but now they are under some control by "flagged for abuse" and other persuasions. Here in sci.physics, is still a primitive third world country forum of bad behavior of front page hogging. We do not need a Wormley cut paste of science news, we can do that ourselves. And we do not want a McGinn constant repeat of his nonsense beliefs which 1 or 2 posts a day is enough of that nonsense, not 25 posts each and every day hogging the front page.

Sad to say that the PV with his mistaken view of special relativity, is a better behaved poster than is McGinn, Wormley, AS who are a direct threat to all posters by bumping and knocking you off the front page-- call it Wormley censorship of sci.physics. If Wormley does not like a posters recent thread, then out comes 25 new cut and paste crap from Wormley to bump your post over into a far away page.

So, front page hogging is a form of censorship. And the way I deal with it is to report these abusers to Google, and even if Google does nothing, at least I see the forum with mostly "blocked from view since you reported this as abuse with 29 other threads".

It takes but a few seconds to report a thread for abuse, and if a lot of other people do the same, then the hogs will be looked at by Google to either stop or change behaviour, or Google could engineer software that does not allow a poster to have more than 2 threads in the first 50 threads on the newsboard.

I would like Google to engineer software that prevents front page hogging because in the future, such software is wanted and needed.

AP

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