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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!j32g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Totally OT: Racing pigeons Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:20:28 -0700 (PDT) References:  <799ekdF1pc336U2@mid.individual.net> <41b33f3e-35f9-431e-9319-e6148d7938f7@e21g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <79h798F1qv8olU2@mid.individual.net> Lines: 35 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.150.242 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1244942428 29316 127.0.0.1 (14 Jun 2009 01:20:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j32g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.150.242; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3133 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:709708

On Jun 13, 9:45 am, Mark McNeill  wrote: > > Quite. This is a good place for me to ask what I've been wondering > recently: why do the people who want OT posts, or OT threads, to be > moderated out of existence want to do it?

I think you're worrying over nothing. No-one, as far as I can see, actually has a problem with off-topic posts. It's just that some people tend to want an excuse to complain about posts by those who they dislike, and the "off-topic" accusation is sometimes the one that they decide upon (for example, Chapman has made many such complaints about my posts, even when they're on-topic, but has never once complained when someone who he agrees with posts off-topic material).

Other results of the "Now, which excuse can I find to complain about one of my opponents' posts?" question which some "regulars" often ask themselves are:

- "abusive posting" (even though abusive posting by Chapman et al is never complained about by the "regulars") - "nym-shifting" (even though nym-shifting by Chapman et al is never complained about by the "regulars") - "swearing" (even though swearing by Chapman et al is never complained about by the "regulars")

In each case, the complainant is actually just too spineless to say "I don't think people should post certain points of view, as I find such points of view difficult to argue with and that makes me angry, mostly with myself for being taken in and coming to the wrong conclusion in the first place."

The cases where a poster really does have a problem with *anyone* posting off-topic material, and isn't just taking the opportunity to whinge about their opponents, are few and far between. I don't think anyone genuinely has any issue with off-topic material on URC.