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From: H1M3M <wipnoah@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: A clever away to get video viewers by giving away games!
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:11:16 +0100
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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

> I wonder if that would work here on Usenet. Do you think if we just 
> started giving away keys we'd get more activity in this newsgroup? We
> should pick a month at random (I dunno, let's say December) and see
> if there's any change in posting habits. ;-)
> 

I know getting new blood is imperative to keep the service alive, but
I'm always scared about what could happen if Usenet became Mainstream
again. Quoting a dead douchebag talking about a historic internet forum:
> There was more civil discourse because you had to basically have a 
> certain level of intelligence to be on [the web]. People respected 
> people more, and it just seems like the easier it is for people to 
> get on, the less rational and civil discourse there is.
I was never there to see how September was before the "Eternal
September" event, but thinking about the people in the worst cesspools
of internet discovering there's a free access to usenet now and using it
to raid the groups scares me badly. it's been bad enough since the
annoying orange came to power again to the point I had to flee a
community with very low moderation due to how bad things had gotten.