XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM   
      
   On 22/10/2025 11:13, Blueshirt wrote:   
   > Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   >   
   >> Again, please keep the Dr. Who slop out of the   
   >> rec.arts.sf.fandom newsgroup. That's a low-volume   
   >> newsgroup for discussing fandom itself, meaning coventions   
   >> and the people who attend and run them, and fanzines and   
   >> the people who write and publish them.   
   >   
   > What about the newsgroups that discuss these shows, are they   
   > not a part of "fandom" too? I mean, a fan writing something   
   > about a sci-fi show for a fanzine or in a Usenet post is pretty   
   > similar. A newsgroup could even be considered an online fanzine!   
   >   
   >> In recent days the unwanted Dr. Who slop has exceeded all   
   >> other traffic in that newsgroup, threatening to destroy it.   
   >   
   > How can traffic destroy a newsgroup? Traffic keeps it alive.   
   > You are free to use filters or killfiles to ignore the   
   > posts/posters that you don't want to see and/or read though.   
   >   
   > Also, who decides what content is wanted and unwanted on any   
   > specific newsgroup? Surely the readers of any newsgroup exercise   
   > their own judgement by using the aforesaid filter mechanisms to   
   > decide what content they read, or ignore?   
      
   The woke believe in controlling what everyone else says, thinks, and   
   does. They don't believe in free speech and discussion of anything that   
   is different to them. They are both Cybermen and Daleks.   
      
   --   
   The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw   
      
   "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it   
   stands for." --William Shatner   
      
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