You were on c.o.o.a? What was your handle?

Maybe AI will get good enough soon enough that we can get the benefits of Usenet without the spam and trolling without the necessity of human moderators.

Web based discussion is so brain-dead and aggravating compared to Usenet. You end up with something locked down like WordPress (Nope, you can't say anything related to gambling or boner pills; nope you can't edit your comments after 5 minutes; nope the discussion thread won't last more than a couple of hours; no pictures; nope, nope, nope...) or Disqus (which has its own issues). Threading? Are you kidding? If the bloghost doesn't like threading, you're stuck. And if you don't want to be chained to real-time discussion all the time, you're not wanted. Progress!!1 :-/

We're slowly rolling out an organization-wide web-based collaboration and discussion site at work. It works pretty well - the little I've played with it, but even things like allowing HTML in posts is the subject of long discussion, and then there's the issue of which editor to permit/support... Welcome to the 1990s. ;-)

Cheers,
Scott.

Post #397,084 by jake123 12/13/14 11:05:05 AM Reply	You were on c.o.o.a? What was your handle? I was in there all the time.
Post #397,085 by Another Scott 12/13/14 11:18:06 AM Reply	It was my name. I had to mostly give it up after some guy at Microsoft sending me an e-mail with an implicit threat about not liking where I was posting from... :-/ The troll threads with Dave Tholen were fun at times. ;-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #397,088 by jake123 12/13/14 12:55:30 PM Reply	Oh my god, Tholen Yeah, epicness abounded. I miss usenet; I still think it would be a great collaboration tool for the enterprise.
Post #397,096 by Another Scott 12/13/14 4:04:29 PM Reply	I miss it as well. Maybe AI will get good enough soon enough that we can get the benefits of Usenet without the spam and trolling without the necessity of human moderators. Web based discussion is so brain-dead and aggravating compared to Usenet. You end up with something locked down like WordPress (Nope, you can't say anything related to gambling or boner pills; nope you can't edit your comments after 5 minutes; nope the discussion thread won't last more than a couple of hours; no pictures; nope, nope, nope...) or Disqus (which has its own issues). Threading? Are you kidding? If the bloghost doesn't like threading, you're stuck. And if you don't want to be chained to real-time discussion all the time, you're not wanted. Progress!!1 :-/ We're slowly rolling out an organization-wide web-based collaboration and discussion site at work. It works pretty well - the little I've played with it, but even things like allowing HTML in posts is the subject of long discussion, and then there's the issue of which editor to permit/support... Welcome to the 1990s. ;-) Cheers, Scott.

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