Nuxx:22f0f866-4fd0-4a1f-a3d9-e907328785f3@n2g2000vba.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!n2g2000vba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <22f0f866-4fd0-4a1f-a3d9-e907328785f3@n2g2000vba.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Absolutely Typical URC: Abuse of Google Groups Rating System Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 25 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.193.13 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249931122 8610 127.0.0.1 (10 Aug 2009 19:05:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:05:22 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n2g2000vba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.193.13; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009073022 Firefox/3.0.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2574 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:723876

Someone who is rather pathetic is systematically going through messages by those who he disagrees with and giving those posts the lowest star rating possible on Google Groups, regardless of the content of the posts. This is absolutely typical of the attitude of so many URC regulars: "I don't agree with him on the important subjects so he shouldn't be allowed to post, no matter what he says".

This numbskull is taking what should be a useful tool and abusing it because he's so bitter about someone who he purports to disagree with being allowed to post. You're supposed to rate the post, not the poster, and by continually dishing out spurious ratings this person is weakening the rating system as a whole (by no means the first time that a URC regular has knowingly impacted on innocent people with their spiteful and mean-spirited actions against individuals/motorists/ etc). And of course he's too much of a coward to admit who he is: instead, he will give this post a 1-star rating, thereby confirming everything that has been written about him in it. Much easier to snipe from the sidelines and not admit who you are, because then you don't have to defend your point of view and risk losing the argument.

The arrogance and the determination to censor those who are "off- message" is just breathtaking.

Guy Chapman: Did you make the Loou Kn.ee post where you called a poster a "piece of shit"?