9.3.2 - soc.culture.japan
This group discusses "Everything Japanese, except the Japanese language." Unfortunately, this broadness of topic area is
both its strength and its weakness. The group is very high traffic, but much
of that traffic is of very low to absurdly low quality.
A key problem is that there is excessive cross-posting, and the
core of regular members are too few in number in proportion to the overall number of posts, much of which is best described
as "noise". The group becomes more bearable if you filter out the netkooks (a range of posters including the full spectrum
from racists to conspiracy theorists, Japan bashers to Japan worshippers etc) and its best to learn how to
killfile irritating posters. Most of these are fairly easy to spot, as they crosspost to other newsgroups that are usually
unrelated to Japanese topics.
All is not lost though - serious questions to soc.culture.japan will usually elicit a serious reply. This is particularly
the case if you cross-post (only) to a separate but related newsgroup called soc.culture.japan.moderated - which is
a moderated forum free of netkooks (albeit correspondingly extremely low in traffic, see the
FAQ for details).
Click here to access FAQ, or the Newsgroup
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