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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.k-dsl.de!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: Nominations invited for new moderators Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:59:46 +0100 References: <8f2hl4Ft9jU1@mid.individual.net>   <0vidnZTTppPf4hHRnZ2dnUVZ8gednZ2d@giganews.com> <9QpAkpeFsIjMFwVN@[127.0.0.1]>     Lines: 21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 9601e0bc.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=aL]?9i6KKaFR[dFP9[mVkDnok4Z\f?JbkHEn, tony@darkstorm.invalid says... > > So I feel obliged to chip in and ask, how can it be possible that Matt B's > contributions take too long to manage if it's only roughly an hour a week > per moderator, unless he consumes 50%+ of that time?

Ah, well the explanation for that is that actually Matt B's posts don't take much time to moderate at all, it's just that "Moderating his posts takes too much time" sounds somewhat better than the truth, i.e. "We don't like him, we don't like his opinions, we don't like that he challenges statements made by 'members' (particularly 'moderators'), and we HATE it when he states facts which we'd much rather weren't true" (e.g. "Cars sometimes take up less space than bicycles").

You knew that already of course :-) But I suppose it must sadden you to see the moderators of a uk.* group being so continually dishonest and dismissive of any form of criticism: I bet you've never seen anything like it before.  These people's desperation to shield themselves from inconvenient truths has resulted in some pretty extreme, deplorable behaviour.