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Kevin - 06 Aug 2006 01:07 GMT
I am here to seek information about cardiology and general medical
issues. Upon reading the topics I find a battle going on between a
religious zealot cardiologist, and an immature name-caller. Neither
registered members, by the way.

This is very unprofessional looking, and doesn't reflect well on your
forum.

Are there no moderators here to maintain forum dignity and keep these
childish flamers/trolls out of here? What possible good can be served
here by a scripture-quoting zealot and a forum bully going at each
other???

This is the topic and post in particular that I am referring to:

http://medical.gr77.com/viewtopic.php?p=149224#149224

I am the administrator of my own phpBB2 forum, and have been for two
years. I would never tolerate this sort of adolescent behavior on my
forum. For starters, I don't allow unregistered guests to post. And
...anyone violating the forum rules would be reprimanded either via
a formal warning, or ultimately a banning.

It reduces the credibility of this forum. Please deal with this. Thank
you.

Posted via medical forums at http://medical.gr77.com
Howard McCollister - 06 Aug 2006 02:03 GMT
>I am here to seek information about cardiology and general medical
> issues. Upon reading the topics I find a battle going on between a
[quoted text clipped - 21 lines]
> It reduces the credibility of this forum. Please deal with this. Thank
> you.

Obviously you're new to Usenet. There are no rules.

Google Usenet and familiarize yourself. Those not comfortable with the "Wild
West" would be better off on administrated or moderated bulletin boards.

HMc
Jeff - 06 Aug 2006 02:44 GMT
>I am here to seek information about cardiology and general medical
> issues. Upon reading the topics I find a battle going on between a
> religious zealot cardiologist, and an immature name-caller. Neither
> registered members, by the way.

Here is a list of registered users:

<list></list>

There are no registered users. Anyone may post. Welcome to unmoderated
usenet news.

All praises belong to Andrew, America's greatest cardiologist and diet
expert

Jeff
Howard McCollister - 06 Aug 2006 03:10 GMT
>>I am here to seek information about cardiology and general medical
>> issues. Upon reading the topics I find a battle going on between a
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
>
> Jeff

I get it.

It appears that Kevin is posting via Medical Forums. I don't know much about
that except that it appears to be some kind of web site that mirrors some
Usenet medical groups and puts them up on a moderated phpBB-style web-based
bulletin board. Likewise, posts there get mirrored back here to Usenet.
That's why he thinks people have to register, and wonders why there are no
moderators - he doesn't realize that the majority of the postings he's
viewing through his little window on the world are actually coming from
Usenet - he thinks we're all on his bulletin board.

Bulletin boards are nice for a cohesive group but such it doesn't give
enough flexibility IMHO. Mostly, it doesn't provide the ability to killfile.
My god, I must have 250 blocked senders in my newsreader and probably at
least as many individual keyword-based filtering rules.

HMc
 
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