On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 12:24:22 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Mayayana
wrote:

That's the nice thing about newsgroups. I find it
odd that more people don't use public newsgroups.

usenet doesn't get the traffic that web forums do, other than spam,
which web forums block or remove.

Yes it does.

They
let Facebook control their lives.

no they don't.

Yes they do.

They let Reddit require
membership

usenet requires a membership with a usenet provider.

But not punctuation.

and "vote" their posts up or down.

that's one of the best parts, which makes it easier to sort through the
crap and find the helpful posts. many web forums do that.

They should block posters who don't punctuate.

And
in the Mozilla group or Microsoft forums it's similar:
Privately owned, quasi-marketing forums that filter
minority opinions.

create your own forum and filter as you see fit.

Yet people somehow prefer that
humiliation to the "public square" of usenet.

the 'public square' is why usenet is overrun with spam.

And people who don't punctuate.