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Re: Reminder: the .off-topic.* groups ARE for off-topic topics
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 9 Mar 2000 04:38:37 GMT
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> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
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> Quite a few people are visibly upset by (or at least uncomfortably jarred by)
> the increase in bickering and other non-LEGO discussions recently. Things
> tend to flare up for a few days and then quiet down, or to go in waves, but
> recently there have been several different co-incidental "waves," making for
> a very unfriendly place to the casual user.
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> The two biggest contributors to the "noise" (meaning anything non-LEGO in
> this case) seem to be the .off-topic.* tree and the .admin.* tree.
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> Perhaps, until a better filtering solution can be implemented, these two
> parts of the ng hierarchy ought not to be included in the top-level summary
> at the homepage afterall. There's no great way to tell how many people are
> adversely affected by the noise, but my gut tells me that tucking these away
> would be a noticable improvement.
won't this break the rule of no-special-cases though? Unless there's
already a mechanism build in for it...?
Dan
(also testing netscape news interface - I'm supposed to be able to reply
now, right? :)
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