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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!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!bolzen.all.de!news.qsc.de!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation,uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: URCM Rejection Competition Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 16:13:15 +0100 References:  Lines: 33 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100529-0, 29/05/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 7eb3b00b.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=@>\1m==WgWG0`W9, jmsmith2010 @live.co.uk says... > > The competition is to guess which of these two posts was allowed - and > which was rejected - both to URCM

Unfortunately I already knew the answer to this one, so I can't really participate. The answer certainly doesn't surprise me though. (Can you believe Chapman's *still* stirring it BTW? Not being able to help rolling in shit must be a pretty unpleasant condition.)

URCM moderation continutes to excel, what with the moderators' secret guidelines, list of which posters can get away with gratuitous insults and irrelevant crap even when their posts are manually moderated, list of which posters must be given an especially hard time because they've told a lot of inconvenient truths there and/or elsewhere, etc. It would be quicker to have a list of the people who *are* allowed to post, a list of subjects which are allowed to be discussed and a list of permitted opinions. It wouldn't take long to come up with such lists as they would be short and precise, and they are already being used (it's just that they only exist in the moderators' minds).

(Hey, maybe Clivey's so desperate to be a moderator because he wants to see all the real URCM moderators' secret documents himself! Perhaps he's actually "one of us", he's been undercover for years and he'll reveal all once he's infiltrated URCM.  I can't imagine why else someone would want to moderate surely the most poorly and vindictively moderated uk.* group in a very long time, possibly ever.  But whatever the reason why he's so keen, I think he's finally starting to realise that sucking up to the moderators is putting him in a very bad light all round, and even if such crude attempts at impressing the moderators have somehow worked on them, if he loses everyone else's respect in the process then he isn't likely to make it to the panel.)