Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Repeating my comments on killfiling crossposted political threads Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:48:58 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: Injection-Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:48:58 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4bbdef7ff27218e1f52c77ed43d56dcf"; logging-data="538767"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1++clB6+wOYx4RNM/1xpMTwQVO+GXZNois=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:6IoCZkriLuTMXF/qKBgrfKe7CWQ= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3093 For those of you who remember the good old days, rec.arts.tv was largely free of political articles crossposted from other newsgroups till the antics of a certain resentful actor who didn't have much of a career in regional theater and used to post via his WebTV device started dragging them in. Then Ubi the shithead and a few others began dragging in the political crosspost threads. Pretty soon, some of those who regularly crossposted political articles began adding rec.arts.tv to the crosspost as this remained an active newsgroup. I've tried various tactics in my own newsreader to avoid crossposted threads. I was killfiling based on newsgroups in the crosspost, but I've switched to entering newsgroups whose articles I don't want to read first to junk them, then reading rec.arts.tv. Junking an article (your newsreader may call it something else) marks the article as read in the newsgroup being read plus any newsgroup it's crossposted into. This is how I de-yadified rec.arts.tv by killfiling in that newsgroup and then junking the rest, and then reading rec.arts.tv. Several of you are posting followups in these crossposted political threads. If you don't cut the crosspost entirely and just leave rec.arts.tv as the sole newsgroup on the Newsgroups header, I've killfiled your followups. Just sayin'. If you want me to read your followup, then don't crosspost. Because of the political crossposting, rec.arts.tv has a bad reputation among the rest of Usenet. There are people who simply refuse to read it due to the political crossposting. It's entirely possible that if I hadn't already been a regular long before this crap started, I might have been unwilling to participate here. I hate the crossposters. I think they aren't encouraging conversation but ruining every newsgroup they touch. Properly, individual newsgroups develop their own personalities and crossposting for that reason has always been harmful to our social culture, such as it is. In followup, watch for the crosspost, and watch for antics by people like Ubi the shithead and others who attempt to redirect your followup elsewhere with the use of Followup-To. I would encourage you not to crosspost in followup but that's your decision, not mine.