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Re: Is Usesent (and/or Reddit) social media?

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On Wed, 12/18/2024 11:23 PM, micky wrote:

> 
> You didn't seem to notice that my question got several good answers,

USENET has a history and it has a rule set.

And it is NOT social media.

To even answer this question, which is (OT * cross-posted)
is a violation of the rule set.

Groups have a narrow charter. The charter receives a lot
of discussion (during request for comments), because it
defines exactly what is allowed and not allowed. For example,
in order to avoid creating a .forsale group, the charter would
indicate that forsale items were allowed, as long as they were
prefaced with FORSALE: . In this way, the voters who voted
on the charter, could agree or disagree with the definition
of topicality. If the decision by the majority was that
FORSALE was banned, then the charter could specifically
say that such articles are "not allowed". You could not
for example OT: forsale hallicrafters X12 transceiver,
as that is specifically an activity which is "not allowed".
Depending on your administrator, you could lose your
account for doing that (administrators did enforce rules
back then - I nearly got banned once for something pretty
trivial).

There is still a Big-8 Management Board. There are still
people who organize USENET. Even if many of the moving
parts are now missing (FAQ postings for new users,
news.newusers for people who are new to USENET).

One of the original suggestions for USENET, upon first
connecting, was to not post. Just read threads (kibbitz) and
absorb the etiquette. Then, if you had any questions
after viewing thousands of posts, someone could fill
in the details. Not posting was preferable to
a posting etiquette violation. That's how things used to work.

When I first started, I read SunManagers. A question would be
raised. After a week or ten days, with some good answers,
the OP "paid" for the question, by writing a summary post listing
which solutions worked and which solutions did not work.
In this way, the OP paid back the effort people put forward
towards answering a question. Then if you looked at a
thread in SunManagers, it was a "self-contained article".
You were not left wondering what happened to the OP, because
they wrote back and paid their debt.

That's a system that had rules. There were no cookie recipes
or car repairs in SunManagers. Just questions and answers
about Sun Microsystems Unix boxes. Most of the queries and
answers, were from IT class people. People stayed on topic there.
There was no one asking "whether it was snowing where you are".

That's an example of the history of the place.

   Paul

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