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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!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!feed2.jnfs.ja.net!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!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: Questions for URCM Moderators re New Appointments Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 21:45:12 +0100 Lines: 24 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: e434351c.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=i]h9NI[TSHbWTR[NRY=YacYjZGX^207Pk`<MJMoM3PFm5Jo4U3@65RbBH4535cfTO`h;e@jg\H?=bYFoRI6^XGkb X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2097 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:30450

I would be most grateful should one or more URCM moderators answer the below questions. I'm sure other UNNM readers would also be interested in at least some of the answers.

1. Are you looking to replace Sara Merriman and Peter Fox with other moderators? If so how many other moderators are you looking for at this time?

2. If you are looking for one or more new moderators, then since there is no Chief Moderator, presumably no one person will decide who the new moderator(s) will be? In which case how will the decision be made?

3. If a poster were to want to be a URCM moderator, would there be anything they could do to increase the likelihood of this happening? Like, say, sucking up to the current moderators wherever possible on UNNM and then saying "F**k right off" to anyone who pointed out that they appeared to be doing this? Or would behaving in such a way actually reduce someone's chance of becoming a moderator, perhaps because such fawning behaviour would encourage a general lack of respect?

Thanks in advance

Guy C