Over the years the standards of newgroups has just declined. They say it was worse after 1993 when AOL made it available to millions of users and didnt educate them about its proper use or that it was not simply an extension of aol's services that they were paying for.
A ngroup i used to go to about aquariums was completely wrecked by a few schizophrenics who did nothing all day except post rubbish.
Recently another group i go to rec.food.cooking seems to be taken over by a few mearkin housewives who just use it as a senseless chat room and are mildly hostile to things new or a bit beyond their horizons, and are obsessed about new posts being trolls.
why is it this newsgroup seems attended by such reasonable and helpful people? And why is there such an absence of people causing trouble and mischief? Since doing a search in Google groups it does not list this ngroup as being 'moderated'.
If there is a reason i think many others would like to know so it could be used to re-establish and clean up other groups. Thanks for any advice.