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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!e24g2000vbe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <39e27fae-27e3-4544-9ae8-81dc8b66a21d@e24g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Pre-RFD: uk.rec.cycling.moderated Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:19:00 -0700 (PDT) References: <2lc*4xWHs@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>     Lines: 50 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243624740 26524 127.0.0.1 (29 May 2009 19:19:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 19:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e24g2000vbe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.27; 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: 3280 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:705363

On May 29, 10:35=A0am, Mark  wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2009 00:13:20 +0100, JNugent > > > >  wrote: > >Martin wrote: > >> Mark wrote: > >>> On 26 May 2009 17:25:06 +0100 (BST), Ian Jackson > >>>  wrote: > > >>> [--snip--] > > >>> I am broadly in agreement with the majority of posts so far. =A0To > >>> summerise my opinions: > >>> * No crossposting. > >>> * Very light touch moderation (certainly to start with, otherwise the > >>> NG may never reach "critical mass" (No pun indended)). > >>> * Any criticism should be constructive. =A0NG should be sympathetic t= o > >>> =A0 "cycling" not "cyclists". > >>> * Moderators should have a long (& positive) posting history before > >>> they are permitted to become moderators. > >>> * Discussion of moderation policy should be permitted. > >>> * Perhaps we should explicitly say that posts repeating the same poin= t > >>> over and over again in the same thread is not permitted. > >>> * No swearing or personal abuse permitted. > > >> I was cycling along Coldharbour road the other week, and the driver of= a > >> BMW shouted at me "You're cycling in the middle of the fucking road". > > >> Should this be stopped because I am repeating a real world conversatio= n? > > >> Swearing should be allowed in certain situations > > >Quotation/demonstration would be one of them. > > Agreed. > > I mainly want to avoid posts where there is a lot of swear words. =A0I > must be old fashioned since I don't think everyday conversion needs > swear words in large quantity. =A0Many people use swear words to > emphasise their point because their point is too weak to stand on its > own (I'm not implying that anyone here is guilty of this, trolls > excepted).

You must think Chapman's a troll then. Which of course he is.