IIRC, some of the decisions for how the Newsgroups worked were driven by the nature of UUCP, and kept when NNTP started to be used. (Yes, I know that we're not talking about protocols for a new system, but the protocols for the previous system can’t really be ignored for how things worked under Usenet.)
I believe that the word “troll” was coined to respond to certain types of bad actors in Usenet.
Moderation tools (for moderated groups) can be important. Client-based killfiles are still a good idea, but group level killfiles for moderator use (or the equivalent) would be a good idea. (Welcome back, “plonk”.)
As already noted, a method to keep certain actors from seeing you would be useful.
Server-local groups (some groups are local). Server-local servers (all groups are local).
Moderation comes in multiple levels: pre-post moderation (posts must be approved by a moderator), and post-post moderation (tools available for removing posts). Moderation of messages, moderation of posters (approval, disapproval, removal). Didn’t moderation of posts in Usenet allow moderators to insert notes in approved messages?
Multi-level threading would be good. Easily visible multi-level threading would be good, but I think that that’s a function of the client software more than a function of the groups themselves (FB does multi-level threading, but the client software often stops displaying which comment is being responded to after the first level or so.)
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I believe that the word “troll” was coined to respond to certain types of bad actors in Usenet.
Moderation tools (for moderated groups) can be important. Client-based killfiles are still a good idea, but group level killfiles for moderator use (or the equivalent) would be a good idea. (Welcome back, “plonk”.)
As already noted, a method to keep certain actors from seeing you would be useful.
Server-local groups (some groups are local). Server-local servers (all groups are local).
Moderation comes in multiple levels: pre-post moderation (posts must be approved by a moderator), and post-post moderation (tools available for removing posts). Moderation of messages, moderation of posters (approval, disapproval, removal). Didn’t moderation of posts in Usenet allow moderators to insert notes in approved messages?
Multi-level threading would be good. Easily visible multi-level threading would be good, but I think that that’s a function of the client software more than a function of the groups themselves (FB does multi-level threading, but the client software often stops displaying which comment is being responded to after the first level or so.)