[17-DEC-2012] Please read: (1) Controversial topics and (2) Use of the SPAM button

[zelee]

I sometimes accidentally press the spam button when try to access the next page when using mobile browser on my phone and do anyone experienced to make a double post when using mobile browser?

[kronological]

Nice double there, zelee

I hit the spam button accidentally almost every day.

I also wish the subscriptions button was near the top of the page.

It would also be nice if there was a ‘Next New’ button.

[zelee]

@kronological

Nice double there, zelee

I hit the spam button accidentally almost every day.

I also wish the subscriptions button was near the top of the page.

It would also be nice if there was a ‘Next New’ button.

Very annoying on give away thread and suddenly bam your post is doubled

[Rufusbduck]

Right fingered so spam button gets tapped fairly often while scrolling. I only confirm it on obvious spam threads.

[DavidEF]

@kronological

Nice double there, zelee

I hit the spam button accidentally almost every day.

I also wish the subscriptions button was near the top of the page.

It would also be nice if there was a ‘Next New’ button.

Oh, to have a ’Next New’ Button!

As for hitting the SPAM button accidentally: it has never happened to me. :bigsmile:

[thijsco19]

I accidentally hit the spam button once. But I have used it a couple times already, of course only on spam threads…

[kronological]

@DavidEF

@kronological

I also wish the subscriptions button was near the top of the page.

It would also be nice if there was a ‘Next New’ button.

Oh, to have a ’Next New’ Button!

As for hitting the SPAM button accidentally: it has never happened to me. :bigsmile:

Sully….is a ‘Next New’ button possible? Purdy please?

Oh…one other thing…OK…two. Can you add a ‘Messages’ and ‘My Subscriptions’ button at the top so you don’t have to scroll down to them, maybe next to the ‘recent posts’ button on the top right?

[hank]

For a few years before the Web happened, there was a wonderful solution based entirely on the proposition that choosing not to see what you knew bothered you was the answer to all this. It worked wonderfully well — and taught people not to reply to what riled them up, just killfile it.

For those who don’t recall those halcyon days of yore, you can read about it at Kibo's killfile tips

It makes invisible any person, place, or thing you don’t want to see. In other words, you can tell the newsreader you never want to see the phrase “MAKE BIG MONEY FAST” again, and those articles will never again appear on your screen. If you can think up the right list of words or phrases, you can trim out a lot of the crap.

Not only can you eliminate articles with bad words in their “Subject:” lines, you can block out things from specific people, sites, newsgroups, or concoct even more interesting formulae. (Anything with a certain number of lines; anything crossposted in certain ways; anything which is a followup; etc.) Internally, what happens is the newsreader program marks those articles as “already been read”, just like the old stuff it doesn’t show you because you saw it yesterday.

The point of this article is to show some of the fun things you can do with killfiles to make Usenet much quicker, and less tedious, to read….

Alas, those days are gone. The commercial and advertising forces would never tolerate that kind of functionality in a web browser. What, let people choose what they want not to be bothered by?

[DavidEF]

@hank

For a few years before the Web happened, there was a wonderful solution based entirely on the proposition that choosing not to see what you knew bothered you was the answer to all this. It worked wonderfully well — and taught people not to reply to what riled them up, just killfile it.

For those who don’t recall those halcyon days of yore, you can read about it at Kibo's killfile tips

It makes invisible any person, place, or thing you don’t want to see. In other words, you can tell the newsreader you never want to see the phrase “MAKE BIG MONEY FAST” again, and those articles will never again appear on your screen. If you can think up the right list of words or phrases, you can trim out a lot of the crap.

Not only can you eliminate articles with bad words in their “Subject:” lines, you can block out things from specific people, sites, newsgroups, or concoct even more interesting formulae. (Anything with a certain number of lines; anything crossposted in certain ways; anything which is a followup; etc.) Internally, what happens is the newsreader program marks those articles as “already been read”, just like the old stuff it doesn’t show you because you saw it yesterday.

The point of this article is to show some of the fun things you can do with killfiles to make Usenet much quicker, and less tedious, to read….

Alas, those days are gone. The commercial and advertising forces would never tolerate that kind of functionality in a web browser. What, let people choose what they want not to be bothered by?

Interesting thought. I wonder if maybe there is some way out there to do just that, and we simply don’t know about it. Hmmm….

[Dimbo_The_Blinky]

I used to love Newsgroups, and not just for the killfile option.

I particularly loved the organization (making it easy to find something interesting — eventually), the text-only mode (meaning I can configure my Reader to look the way I want w/o “style sheets” or other glam) and the fact that there was no other censorship than your own killfile.

I wonder where they all went?

Oh, yeah… No way for the “authorities” to “regulate” the content, true anonymity so no way for the NSA to keep track of who’s saying what to whom, and no way for spammers advertisers to get past that killfile. What was I thinking?

Now I love BLF. Thanks to our wonderful, sagacious and wise Admin.

[hank]

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[Dimbo_The_Blinky]

“Google groups”?? Now that’s funny right there!

[hank]

This is sometimes helpful to consider, in situations where a small unpleasantness seems increasingly overblown:

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