On 2026-06-01, The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:

Group : rec.arts.sf.written
Statistics : from 2026-05-01 to 2026-05-31

***** Users with most messages *****
num| Name | Nb Msg |
----|----------------------|--------|
1 | Lynn McGuire | 142 |
2 | Paul S Person | 101 |
3 | oldernow | 99 |
4 | Lawrence D?Oliveiro | 69 |
5 | Bobbie Sellers | 65 |
...

Kind of fascinating.

First, oldernow's contributions have far and
away been pointing out examples of TDS-rooted
idiocy, which of *course* is not on topic, and
yet neither was the idiocy being responded to,
so... there seemed plenty of "what's good for
the goose" justification to do so.

After that, oldernow is remembering only "Lynn
McGuire" and "Lawrence D?Oliveiro" being much
involved on topic. "Paul S Person" and "Bobbie
Sellers" seemed mostly interested in perpetuating
off topic political threads - which, of course,
would thus be where oldernow would feel the most
need to followup given the high concentration
of TDS-rooted idiocy stinking up the place.

And then there's this:

***** Users with most started threads *****
num| Name | or. |
----|----------------------|-----|
1 | Lynn McGuire | 42 |
2 | James Nicoll | 15 |
3 | oldernow | 4 |
...

Really? oldernow somehow ranked *third* in
starting threads?

(Okay, oldernow is vaguely remembering starting
threads that were *arguably* on topic inasmuch
as the phrase "speculative fiction" hardly
constitutes a tight, narrow beam of
specificity.)

Proof the usenet is not dying

Maybe.

Shame on you, those of you who consider yourself
legitimate rec.arts.sf.written participants! How
is it that you're posting less than those who
clearly aren't fans or appreciators of
"speculative fiction" given their
overall followup political focus?

People complain about "trolls", and yet don't
do their part to make a newsgroup sufficiently,
legitimately vibrant to discourage some people
feeling the need to spice a place up a bit for
lack of on topic fervor.

What's extra interesting is this author is
speculating this very moment, and many would
call it fiction, and thus this post winds up
hitting the bullseye topically!

So curious a species....

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