Games People Shouldn't Play

[firecat]

I complain about people playing Yabbut on a certain newsgroup.

The OH and I agree: Ed Wright (of soc.singles in the early 90s) is the all-time champion of Yabbut, and it's boring to play with anyone else.

Comments

separating wheat from chaff

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

ed wright! egads, that takes me back.

anyway, the short answer is "yes". or maybe it's "no". it depends on how much work you want to put into your kill/select file. alt.poly is one of those groups where the real chaff is very easy to tell, and you can just killfile those twits. but if you only have a limited amount of time available, it becomes very hard to come up with a good algorithm to read only what's interesting, because even people who're in general well worth reading can often not leave well enough alone when engaging in nitpicking (*guilty*), or they get into long fluffy cascades, or Must Hammer Sense into the head of a twit whom i've already killfiled, etc.

i basically (when i read, which alas i am not right now) read everything because of that (aside from the twits whom i killfile very quickly), but sometimes i just whiz through hitting the "next" key while skimming along.

it's always been a very worthwhile group for me though, and if i had any extra time at all, that's where it'd go.

Re: separating wheat from chaff

[eve-l-incarnata.livejournal.com]

I don't have my own computer (Well, actually I do, but it's shoved in a closet because it is so slow), so I don't download any newsgroup posts. I'm using Google Groups.