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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!w6g2000vbo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: URCM Bore Poll Results: Not What Jackson Wanted? Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:56:05 -0800 (PST) Lines: 42 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1299095765 32218 127.0.0.1 (2 Mar 2011 19:56:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 19:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w6g2000vbo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3671 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:38369

Something tells me that if Jackson had felt that the results of the attack poll in *any* way justified sanctioning Matt B, he would eagerly have done it already. I predict that Jackson will now go into sulk mode and we'll get very little if any information concerning what the poll results were (you know, the usual lack of basic courtesy/ communication). We will thus be able to infer that other than Chapman and Phil "Cabbie" Lee, and maybe the poorly named "Ace", there were very few if any responses that Jackson wanted.

So I think it unlikely that any official action will be announced against Matt B as a result of this ridiculous, unpleasant, spiteful little poll. And obviously that's good news for the reasonable majority. But as we well know, Jackson will not leave it at that. There's no way he's ever going to accept Matt B putting forward interesting, unique, well thought out and difficult-to-challenge ideas which show that a pragmatic strategy like "Accept that motoring is useful to society and is here to stay, and make road safety efforts which are genuinely and exclusively about accommodating motoring safely rather than discouraging it" is far superior to an aggressive and unrealistic one like Jackson's "Motoring causes all road safety problems, and therefore bullying people out of their cars at every opportunity is the only way to go, only purported safety measures which also punish driving are worthwhile, and sod the consequences in general to society".

Jackson will simply never tolerate uncomfortable ideas such as Matt B's on "his" newsgroup (that's why he set it up), so it's just a question of when and how, rather than if, he will act against Matt B next. However, this apparent victory is a step forward, and another round lost for the inconvenient truth haters, and it just makes the proper reform of URCM that much more imminent and inevitable. Every time Jackson tries something like this, it will likely backfire on him like this little exercise has done. Sooner or later, he will run out of options and be removed one way or another, and I am optimistic that once the core problem (which *can't* be Judith or me) has gone, "moderation" of URCM will improve rapidly more-or-less by itself.

In other words, it may well get worse before it gets better, but it tolerant attitude towards posts like Matt B's, and too few who unreasonably don't. Kudos to all who voted the right way (although I completely understand those who refused to).
 * will* get better. There are simply too many people who want a