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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Facebook goes mental
Date: 3 Feb 2025 20:17:46 GMT
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On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 07:54:59 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> Any time you give control freaks "power" by making them moderators it
> goes to their heads. Something I would NEVER want to do. Just makes me
> tired thinking about it.

Years back I was one of the moderators on a moderated newsgroup. It got 
rid of the trolls but it had been started mostly to rein in a Viktor 
Rydberg fan. The group withered away. We used moderation software that had 
a small yearly fee and after a while it wasn't worth keeping it.