There are a very small number of spoilers on this site -- esp. idiots such as archimedes lever -- who try to stop genuine group users from posting occasional clearly-labelled FA notices. I post maybe one of these notices a year, and I really appreciate it when other group members point our way to their ebay auctions. These spoilers won't tolerate these occasional FA messages but seem happy to let this group degenerate into a spam-haven, advertising gucci watches, and this sort of message which seems to get posted several times every day: chinabestof.com wholesale gucci sneakers wholesale true religion jeans wholesale D&G coat wholesale ed hardy tshirt wholesale christian audigier hoody In fact, I would think archimedes lever is the key spammer, and doesn't want to see true group member FA posts sullying his little profit-making exercise. Maybe a group FAQ outlining what can or can't be posted would be a good way to go, for the few non-retards who can post without turning every post into a spam-ad or an obscenity. I know the latter would be too hard for most!
You're about as funny as a freshly laid turd. Oh wait... You *are* a freshly laid turd. Stop stinkin' up the place, shithead.
FAQs require a decent number of senior members of the group to come to a consensus on certain issues, and that has to be enforced by community standards. Most of the useful members of alt.video.dvd are long gone, and there's so much crap in here you'll probably never establish a consistent code of conduct again. I hate to say it, but it's probably time to let this and other newsgroups die. I wish we could bring them back, but without participants who have half a brain, there's no point.
I'll search out the best of the sites you're suggesting -- a 'moderated' site seems the only way to go, sadly, since some people are unable to moderate themselves! This site used to be so good till the lunatics tried to take control.... Thanks, Anthony
