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Pastimes : SI Message Filtering - Pros and Cons -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John O'Neill who wrote (207)	5/22/1998 1:10:00 AM
From: CatLady	Respond to of 263

John, I know how filtering works with a message reader on Usenet threads. SI is not Usenet, and I hope it never becomes like Usenet. Who's Mark? CL

To: John O'Neill who wrote (207)	5/22/1998 6:35:00 AM
From: raven	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 263

John: You are wasting your breath and time trying to get a filter!!! There has been ample reason and many examples why we need a filter and nothing has happened. Not even on a trial basis. IMHO one of the main goals is to increase the amount of posts on the threads. The more wars, the more posts. Forget the quality of the threads, if it is a goal, it has very low priority. raven

To: John O'Neill who wrote (207)	5/22/1998 8:08:00 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 263

John, re: "From a phycotherapist's point of view..I think people go to the public post as a type of exhibitionism and to enlist others into the controversy..." To me, one of the most interesting aspects about posting behavior is the way the regulars on a thread respond to the troublemaker. Some regulars strike back and a catfight ensues. Other regulars ignore the troublemaker in the hopes that he/she will go away and caution the first camp to do the same. Can you offer some thoughts on the psychology of these two ways of responding? Since there are often more useless posts generated by the responders than by the troublemaker, perhaps there's a kernel of a solution to the problem in understanding why some regulars are inclined to strike back while others aren't.