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On Mar 3, 7:35=A0pm, Tom Crispin  wrote: > > There may also be several lurkers who have emailed Ian requesting that > Matt is banned, and asking that their names be kept secret.

It's rather concerning that so many people seem to have such doubts about Jackson's integrity (not that I'm sure you were insinuating anything like that...although the short-lived hugs seem to have stopped!) Surely a basic requirement of being an effective Chief Moderator of any uk.* newsgroup is that you're viewed as honest and trustworthy by the vast majority of people, without them even thinking about it, whatever their opinions are. Yet even plainly reasonable people such as Geoff Berrow don't seem to trust Jackson (not that I think Geoff has explicitly stated anything like that).

Compare this with other uk.* Chief Moderators like Mark Goodge and The Todal: some may disagree with or dislike them, but very few if any would even begin to think that there'd be any possibility of them rigging votes in order to get rid of someone towards whom they had an intolerance (and of course the intolerance itself would be much less likely to exist in the first place). Anything like that would be pretty unlikely in most people's minds: Goodge and The Todal have done enough for people to believe that they're honest enough where required.

Jackson has not earned anything like the same level of credibility. Even someone who agrees with his nutcase anti-car views, his intolerance towards people who disagree with him, and his draconian and rejection-happy approach to "moderation" must surely still have grave reservations about him being Chief Moderator when the trust, respect, social skills and natural authority that a leader must command are so severely and blatantly lacking. He's quite clearly the wrong man for the job, and I don't know if there could possibly be any more proof of that than we've already had.