Time to give up on TOB
Time to give up on TOB
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Jreboll wrote:I guess when you’re all cooped up, you start climbing the walls and attacking anyone you can communicate with.
Fortunately, that isn't true for everyone. However, I'm seeing posts from people who have gone from adolescence to old age without stopping at maturity.
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Holalola wrote:CG, I have to agree with you. I find myself turning quite grumpy almost every time I look at TOB. The sniping, rudeness, hatred and just plain nastiness is so disappointing. There's truly no excuse for it.
And that really shows you the sad level of moderation employed by one mainecoons. I believe if they got rid of him, and his alter-egos, it would go back to being a good place to get information and help. As it is, it's like Trump's Twitter account gone mental.
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CHILLIN wrote:It will change in mid December. The U.S. election will still be dysfunctional - far too many people in the media whose income will depend on keeping the fires burning. The change here will be Yahoo suspending all groups on that date. There are many local and vocal yahoo groups.
What is a Yahoo Group?
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ComputerGuy wrote:I still lurk on that other board, but I think it's time to stop doing that. The last few months it has degenerated even further into chaos, trolling, hatred, judging, patronizing and disrespect. No answer is safe, no question is safe, no matter how polite and unassuming. Members whose posts I used to respect have fallen down into the same circle of hell that the usual suspects have always frolicked in. Reading some of this stuff makes me sour for the day. That's more than just sad and troubling: it's a sign of the times, and I don't like it.
Yes, there is some truth in what you say CG...But the posting's are still significantly higher than INL..Perhaps we should be happy that we have choices, given the size of our community.
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Lady Otter Latté wrote:CHILLIN wrote:It will change in mid December. The U.S. election will still be dysfunctional - far too many people in the media whose income will depend on keeping the fires burning. The change here will be Yahoo suspending all groups on that date. There are many local and vocal yahoo groups.
What is a Yahoo Group?
Google is your friend.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Groups
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RickS wrote:Lady Otter Latté wrote:CHILLIN wrote:It will change in mid December. The U.S. election will still be dysfunctional - far too many people in the media whose income will depend on keeping the fires burning. The change here will be Yahoo suspending all groups on that date. There are many local and vocal yahoo groups.
What is a Yahoo Group?
Google is your friend.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Groups
Yeah. Read that. Still really don’t know what it is/was and how folks used it. I don’t care enough to read more — especially seeing as how I guess they no longer exist or soon will not.
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CanuckBob wrote:Yahoo groups are like Facebook groups......
... but in your email?
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The yahoo groups were probably the precursor to forums like this one. They are badly planned and badly laid out and hard to follow. I was a member of a yahoo group in San Miguel de Allende way back when.
Irritating format but there is one for every interest you may have. Crocheting, knitting, gardening etc. YMMV. Very specific. And very outdated.
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I liked this quote.
" Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarreah. Massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. Gene Spafford, 1992"
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I used a few Yahoo groups until about a year ago. When the end was in sight many groups beat the rush and moved elsewhere or just closed the doors. Yahoo groups were mailing lists with a generally narrow focus and a few options for how to receive mail from the group. With some groups you'd get several messages each day and with others you might not get three messages in a month. A nice service in its day.
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