XPost: alt.culture.usenet, news.groups, news.software.readers
"Killfiles are the nunchucks of Usenet. Like nunchucks, many users of
killfiles are so obsessed with the spectacle and ego-gratification of brandishing them, that such users lose sight of the fact that they are ineffective weapons. Even the most skilled nunchuck wielder can be
vulnerable to a simple farmer snatching them out of their hands with the business end of a pruning hook, then flipping that pruning hook over to
the handle end to beat them over the head before they realize what
happened. Killfiles are vulnerable to being undermined by subject and
nym shifting, as well as natural human weakness and temper that can be
baited and provoked. Combatants on Usenet don't want to 'ignore'
arguments, they want to actively engage them."
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicUsenet/comments/ud39nz/newsreader_killfiles_the_nunchucks_of_usenet/
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