Poaching

I hate it when people make poachy posts to mail lists or groups. It just strikes me as rude and kind of spammy, especially when the person doesn’t even participate in the group they’re poaching from. “Hi, you don’t know me and I can’t be bothered to get to know you, but please come hang out in my group. Kthxbye!” WTF?!

So, I moderate a couple of Flickr groups. There was a post to one of them over the weekend from someone who moderates a Yahoo group on the same subject. I used to be a member of that group, until the moderator did a few things that were rude and kind of bizarre, and that led to me in effect being banned from the group (specifically, she wouldn’t moderate my posts and wouldn’t respond to my direct e-mails asking for her help in resolving the issue). Okayfine. The Interwebs are vast, and there’s plenty of room for redundancy, so I started my own group. And now this person has the nerve to poach there?

Grrr.

I am sorely tempted to respond to her post, asking her ever so politely if she’s reciprocated by posting a similar message to her own group. Surely she has?