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jghn on June 5, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why did Usenet fail?

No, killfiles were at an individual level. But they were more than "I'm tired of seeing User Y", as you could also plonk text patterns and the like.

IIRC group-wide moderation was handled per-post in that every post was approved by hand.

dragontamer on June 5, 2023 [–]

> IIRC group-wide moderation was handled per-post in that every post was approved by hand.

Definitely not. The kinds of "mistakes" I've seen in moderation back then suggests that the process was highly automated.

Moderated Usenet is way more similar to modern Reddit than people probably realize.

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