Nuxx:A81b0d78-c5aa-4c24-b6bd-d794ba743043@v19g2000yqn.googlegroups.com

Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!209.197.12.246.MISMATCH!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.21.MISMATCH!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!v19g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Chapman Is NOT "In Charge" of This Newsgroup Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 47 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.147 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1238877849 21393 127.0.0.1 (4 Apr 2009 20:44:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 20:44:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v19g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.147; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3477 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:693256

I for one am fed up with Guy Chapman acting as though he has some kind of elevated status within this newsgroup, not only over the "trolls", but over everyone else as well. The fact is that he has no more sway over what happens in this group than anyone else, including those who he disagrees with. I am sick of him repeatedly:

- berating people for not discussing "cycling" (but of course only when they post something that he disagrees with, i.e. it's just an excuse to censor his opponents).

- telling other people both publicly and privately who they can and can't reply to.

- telling other people both publicly and privately how and whether to quote other people.

- hosting pages and "FAQs" on his Site of Hate about this site, and then referring to them as if they have some sort of official status within this group.

- acting as though this is "his" newsgroup and it's been "invaded" by those who he dislikes, when they have every bit as much right to be here as he does.

- trying to encourage people to killfile his opponents.

- etc, etc.

It's perfectly simple: at the moment, no one person in this newsgroup is any more "important" or "entitled to be here" than any other. No- one "owns" this newsgroup or has a right to complain about anyone else "infesting" it. If Chapman or anyone else wants to change that, then fine, but until then, it's as above.

The fact is that Chapman would never want to get the wheels in motion to elect an administrator or moderator, because he knows damn well that he's a lot more despised than he lets on, and that there's no way in a million years that he would ever be elected to such a position. So instead he pretentiously acts as though he's in such a position already, despite knowing that it's not what people want. It's pathetic, it's unaccepable and it's *so* him.

I know that other people, whether they are anti-motorist like Chapman or not, feel the same. It's yet another reason why the arsewipe needs putting in his place, and soon. So is anyone going to have the courage to tell him to stop acting like some kind of authority round here?