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Posted by RobG on October 17, 2007, 8:35 pm
Please log in for more thread options > RobG wrote:
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> >>http://improve-usenet.org/
>
> > "Most of the people who post to Usenet via the clunky Google Groups
> > web interface are lusers or lamers..."
>
> > What an idiotic generalisation - the use of hip gamer jargon further
> > erodes any chance of respect for the opinions expressed.
>
> I bet you're only saying that because you posted through the clunky GG.
> ;)
In part, but not solely.
> I find it amusing that you're taking it so personally. If you truly
> are not the typical GG luser or lamer I'd expect you to have donned your
> teflon-coated flame-retardant Usenet suit and ignore such statements.
I just get annoyed that people write such rubbish and others then
quote it to support their own petty agendas. Yes, I can cop as good
as anyone here can give, but that doesn't change the fact that glib,
discriminatory generalisations should be called for what they are.
> > "...they have no idea what Usenet is, how it works, or how to use it
> > properly. And they don't want to learn."
>
> > Absolute rubbish. Does the use of a news reader make someone an
> > instant Usenet guru?
>
> No, nor should it. It does show, however, that they at least have the
> potential for cluefulness. The huge majority of google gropers don't
> have it - a fact that has become painfully obvious to the rest of us.
I disagree. The GG web interface to Usenet is the first contact that
many new users have with news groups. It is to be expected that if
you make discussion forums more widely available by allowing access
via a new medium, you will get a disproportionate number of novices
using that medium. It is the responsibility of the community to
educate such users in etiquette so that they may possibly become
useful contributors, not to dismiss them as worthless clutter simply
because they come to the community via a particular medium.
--
Rob
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