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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!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news2.euro.net!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!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 Subject: Re: URCM : Blocking is Permanent Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 08:26:18 +0100 References: <86s2gdFea6U1@mid.individual.net> <6d14fe4d-f26d-4ac3-ab82-0279d2908307@k39g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <86t4ldFp8jU1@mid.individual.net>  <86t5d9Ft7sU1@mid.individual.net> <3YOdnVTXQdA2_JTRnZ2dnUVZ8r0AAAAA@brightview.co.uk> <86tcd8F4thU1@mid.individual.net>      Lines: 21 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 100605-1, 05/06/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 6f17f963.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=]Gl;TRP[:GB0`W9, M8R-dspfa7 @mailinator.com says... > > Tony wrote: > > > > JMS is barred, but for how long and if there's any chance of a review is > > obscure, obtuse and unhelpful. It gives her meat to grind. She can ask > > and ask and ask and ask and push and poke and ask and push. > > Whereas before she trolled and trolled and trolled and trolled, so it is > somewhat more bearable. There's also the added bonus that it takes > place here while genuine discussion can continue in peace elsewhere.

...where "genuine discussion" = "sanitised exchanges where certain nasty facts, opinions and those who the clique personally dislike are removed".

Why would it bother you so much to see certain opinions being stated unless it was because you knew they were correct, but you desperately didn't want them to be? Why else would you be *so* averse to actual genuine discussion?