Handling trolls invading a community (1993)
Usenet users from one community begin invading another with trollish posts and comments, in an early example of brigading. Summary: Before even the World Wide Web existed, Usenet was a […]
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Usenet has to figure out how to deal with spam (April 1994)
An early form of borderline deceptive commercial content inundating Usenet newsgroups causes an uproar among users. Summary: In the early 1990s, facing increased pressure from the commercial sector who sensed […]