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Y'know, I blame "social" websites for this mess.
Places like Facebook, Twitter/Shitter/X or whatever their name
is this month. They're all like toilets, they sucked away all the
good, legitimate traffic from Usenet groups, and from topic-
specific private and public moderated forums.
This leaves cracks in the pavement so to speak, for the bots and
other dreck to creep in and ruin the place!
I'm a regular on several car-related forums, including one Filipino
based site, and for the most part, it's all good, clean car stuff -
driving cars, best SUV to buy, tire recommendations, how handle
a ticket if you get one, etc.
I for one would NEVER join a car- or any other topic - related group on
Facebook, for instance. I ask a simple underhood question, I get ten
conflicting answers, it devolves into argument, finger-pointing,
name-calling, political jabs, conspiracy spins, and ultimately someone
gets banned or ends up in "FB jail".
Noooooooo.....
thank you!
It's a shame that cesspools like that have won out over the bastions of
civility that Usenet and moderated closed forums used to be.