Overcoming a Frat Party Reputation - NY Times

My problem with viewing the article wasn't lack of a login. I had a problem reading it because visibility was spotty due to the size of the Alstrom brothers' heads.

-Steve

Almost as large as their bellies :)

But they do a lot for what I call quality beer!

Dick

I actually had to tip my web browser sideways so their ugly heads would fit on the screen.

Such as? Oh right, now we know what's in the refrigerators of a bunch of socially-deficient boys. Any discussion of substance inevitably feels the wrath of their delete finger.

They put on nice festivals, yes.

Aside from that, what do they do?

Beer discussion fora predate the Goats (browse the rfdb archives for how the Alstroms got that name, circa May/June 2000). This was one of them. They've done nothing special in that regard. And, given the various sheannanigans they've pulled with that venue, they're doing nothing to promote that. Unless somehow suppressing dissent is somehow positive for American beer culture.

Of course, there's the ultimate irony of people who have insisted for years about how dead Usenet is continuing to come back to Usenet in hopes of getting some ball-scratching.

-Steve

Kill filing doesn't let people know that their messages are undesired.

Phil

Phil, are you 100% sure about that?

How will someone know how others care without feedback? Do you reply to every single post that agree with?

Phil

You didn't answer the question.

I did. Just not the way you wanted.

Phil

Email. Otherwise you're adding yet more noise.

I'm wondering if Phil is being deliberately obtuse, or is just kinda dense at times.

But ... he's been plonked. If he replies to a plonk, it's definitely the latter, and if he hasn't figured out yet that killfiling very much

No big loss either way.