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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!s20g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <6df3839e-7a54-4ce6-9994-59c134fe31c6@s20g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: This group has lost its way. Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:07:44 -0800 (PST) References:  <20090221180125.7f2165d8@bluemoon>  <20090221185546.35580c9a@bluemoon>  <20090222045600.390fe625@bluemoon>     Lines: 29 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.158.200.251 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235617664 4803 127.0.0.1 (26 Feb 2009 03:07:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:07:44 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s20g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.158.200.251; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2997 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:687251

On Feb 24, 11:42 pm, "Adam Lea"  wrote: > Adam Funk wrote: > > On 2009-02-22, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: > > >> A particularly toxic or noxious individual whose main aim is > >> destruction of a group can do a lot of damage by provoking > >> in-fighting, but yes, it is hard for any one individual to > >> single-handedly determine the direction of a group. > > > Has setting up a moderated newsgroup been discussed (and rejected) > > here previously? > > I believe it has. The question always remains as to who you trust to do the > moderating in a fair manner (i.e that their judgement is not influenced by > their own strong opinions)

What you mean is that you (and others) want someone who will censor discussions about anti-motorist measures et al which are being won by the non-car-haters (i.e. most such discussions), but you know really that anyone who was willing to do that would be a power-crazed fuckwit who would abuse their status as a moderator and thus be totally unsuitable (Spindrift and Chapman being two of the more obvious examples of such people).

Doesn't that tell you something about your stance towards anti- motorist measures? If I found that of those who agreed with me about something, there was an usually high concentration of dickheads, I would be forced to seriously consider whether my viewpoint about the "something" in question was really correct.