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Re:Why Not to Use Quora by masonic on Monday December 10, 2018 @01:52AM (#18645779)
When AOL first created its portal to Usenet newsgroups in the 1990s, there was a similar effect.
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Re:Why Not to Use Quora by stickfigure on Monday December 10, 2018 @11:25AM (#18648975)
Very true. Funny anecdote:

I used to be an avid reader of alt.best-of-internet. When AOL put newsgroups online, alt.best-of-internet was at the top of the alphabetical list and suddenly got a deluge of nonsense. Please to AOL went unheard.

Someone got the brilliant idea to keep a thread bumped to the top whose title was:

OFFICIAL MESSAGE FROM AOL: WE WORSHIP SATAN

I don't know if this was cause/effect, but shortly afterwards alt.best-of-internet was hidden or moved to a less conspicuous location in the UI and the deluge stopped.

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