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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!novia!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,uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Not welcome in URCM if English is not perfect. Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 16:57:52 +0100 References: <92gfv5de0966nk5j5pcl81493ake9c5cbd@4ax.com> Lines: 31 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 7d20ec60.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=1mVWQcS\06_aje075Dnk;QYjZGX^207P[`, me@privacy.net says... > > Someone else then said: > > >Which is precisely right, that is what it is. Interestingly, they had > > >originally set out to prove the opposite of what they did find, which > > >rather undermines your claim that it is biased against helmet use. > > > > > >Guy

I wonder why it is that so many of the URC/URCM-related controversies we've had in the last 5+ years have involved Chapman in some way?

Regarding URCM, I'm afraid it's no longer a surprise to anyone that the moderation decisions are continually vexatious, unjustifiable and extremely biased towards a particular (incorrect, as it happens) view of the world. It will remain that way until at least some of the current lot (including the non-Chief Moderator) are replaced. They are there for all the wrong reasons and they have to accept that if they want to set up their own private club where no-one is allowed to challenge their assertions on certain matters, that's fine, but a web forum or mailing list is the appropriate place to do it, not a newsgroup.

Or (shock horror) they could just accept that they're wrong on some things. Otherwise they wouldn't be so bothered about people arguing with them because they'd have the confidence that they could win the debate. But sadly I don't think they have the necessary backbone to ever admit to being wrong on anything. So the current draconian URCM is the result, and uncensored debate is the casualty.

This must change. Do any rational, unbiased people disagree?