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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!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: How do "Nobodies" Go About Replacing Moderation Panels? Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 21:13:50 +0100 References:  <4bfd8fba$0$2537$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> <6ee2da16-1dcf-4967-b4de-3641ef880252@e28g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> <4bfeb5e7$0$28009$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk>      <0k1VDjXjmqAMFwvw@[127.0.0.1]>  Lines: 18 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 100606-0, 06/06/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: d1a4be20.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=IWkV=Ta@Z8fNIg4<6BFRPinok4Z\f?JbkhEn, armb@chiark.greenend.org.uk says... > > it would ensure that anyone who ever accuses > the moderators of being a hand-picked bunch of buddies again should be > mocked mercilessly.

If it's not a hand-picked bunch of buddies then what exactly is it? Who from the original panel was not a buddy of Jackson (to one extent or another) at the time that he selected them (and why would he select such a person)? Serious question.

I know he's being very subtle about it, but have you noticed that Clive George seems to want to be a URCM moderator? Presumably if he just openly put himself forward then that would give him a much better chance than ridiculously, obviously sucking up to the real moderators all the time (and then either playing dumb or saying "Fuck off" when people comment on him having just done it, very obviously, yet again)?