Date: 2025-02-07 The cemetery of rotting masters Some internet heroes may remember when not so long ago there was a disscusion about rebirth of comp.os.plan9 Usenet newsgroup. For obvious reason current masters of "big 8" hierarchies decided to keep newsgroup about Plan 9 operating system moderated. In Usenet, moderated means, total control of the newsgroup. Moderator may even decides he will not publish any other article, just his poetry. That time I was against moderated status. Message-ID: You can read the whole disscussion in news.groups.proposals from 2024-10-28 (Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.os.plan9). Obviously masters want control and sheep want masters. So similar online issues always end this way. Now if you try to post your article into comp.os.plan9 at the best you will wait several days until master approves your article. It has to meet his standards, ideals and ideologies, otherwise it will be never published. You will have no idea why. You will not get an email of refusal or anything. Zero information, zero transparency. Just as always, what master wants. Who wants to post article into some newsgroup if you have to post something, spend energy and time for it, then it may not appear online at all? Or you will just wait several days until master publishes it? It's 2025 and waiting several days to get some plain text online is eternity. Sad news is, that if you keep something completely unmoderated, other masters will attack it, sheep will destory it. They both can't smell freedom around their cages. Dear online heroes, Usenet is just cemetery of rotting masters and mass grave of sheep. It's waste of time for a human. This Usenet piece is just one example from millions online cemeteries. I bet you experienced already many of them. Ye there will rise many who will defend and protect particular group, online space, protocol or whatever. Dear, if you stand in front of the gate with a sword in your hand and protect the entrance, it does not mean that it is not just a cemetery full of rot. By the way, there is nothing more stupid and completely useless than fmt util in Plan 9. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.