On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 12:51:29 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
> wrote:

>On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 2:03:30 PM UTC-5, Jeßus wrote:
>> On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 11:44:26 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 12:37:18 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>> >> On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 9:55:49 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Kuthe was one of the first in mine and that was after he objected to an
>> >> > off topic thread going on too long. Instead of filtering the subject or
>> >> > simply ignoring it, he ran a tally and replied to each new post with the
>> >> > new tally, all the while almost doubling the number of OT posts. While
>> >> > he is probably quite convinced that it was an act of brilliance I
>> >> > considered it to be one of idiocy and a sick mind.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> Oh gawd, I remember that. For some reason he thought he had
>> >> been appointed the net cop for this group and was going to
>> >> 'teach us all a lesson' about posting to off topic subjects.
>> >> I simply didn't understand his logic when he made sure HE
>> >> replied to every reply to 'teach us a lesson.' Sounds like
>> >> a dog chasing it's tail, doesn't it?
>> >
>> >I knew exactly what I was doing with that. Some nood, probably several noods, over in another newsgroup were CROSSPOSTING to RFC some nonsense they were really only concerned with in their private nood-world, so I was following suit to show then how stupid it was to CROSSPOST crap where it was not wanted or needed!
>>
>> OH. Well, that makes PERFECT sense, John. You show them outsider noods
>> what for by flooding RFC with crap. Way to go! LOL.
>
>I must admit, it was a totally fruitless effort, because the NOODS starting and perpetuating it probably can't even think so good, much less modify their behavior. If they read any of my posts at all!

Exactly, that's really not the best way to achieve the result you were
looking for