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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!nx01.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!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: URCM : Question to Moderators Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:54:30 +0100 References: <989sr5hdqhoj4ki1sj7ltild6kuucd2bga@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 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100408-1, 08/04/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 88713da5.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=ED;4MAXXcfn, news2010 @colyer.plus.com says... > > On 08/04/2010 19:49, JMS wrote: > > Perhaps some on the moderation panel would like to comment on the > > above posts - are such posts really acceptable in URCM - or does it > > depend on who makes the post and who it is a reply to? > > Humour is acceptable. Excessive metadiscussion is not.

Oh come ON. Aren't you getting fed up with having to repeat the party line when it so obviously isn't the case? I'll wager that there isn't a people are allowed to mildly insult Judith because of her URC posting history and 2) Judith is not allowed to defend herself against such insults because of her URC posting history.
 * single person* who has read this discussion and not concluded that 1)

Unlike many of the other moderators I think you're probably a reasonable person, so can you please, please be brave enough to break ranks and stop the charade? Do you really find it satisfactory to keep saying things which you know not to be true? Is that the way to run a newsgroup properly? If you think censorship of particular posters and opinions is so great and so necessary then please admit that that's what you're doing; if you're too ashamed to admit it then you know you shouldn't be doing it at all.

George: Moderator Wannabe knows they're excuses. So why keep pretending that "Judith's posts are treated the same as if anyone else had posted them" and all the other nonsense we've heard? *What is the point* Danny?
 * No-one*, but *no-one*, is falling for these excuses. Even Clive