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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!g11g2000vbq.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <8de9d58c-281e-4222-83ad-b5f5bfa2a617@g11g2000vbq.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: URCM: Replacing Simon Brooke Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:24:46 -0800 (PST) Lines: 16 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1298640286 23839 127.0.0.1 (25 Feb 2011 13:24:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:24:46 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g11g2000vbq.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8; U; en) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 1966 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:37965

Will there be a new moderator chosen to replace Simon Brooke? If so, will this be done in the usual transparent, impartial way?

If and when this happens, the makeup of moderators will be significantly different to what it was when some decisions were made by moderator ballot. Some of those decisions are still in effect today. Should a second round of votes not be taken to see if there is any change to those decisions? Perhaps this would provide a way of rescinding the deeply unpopular, destructive and ineffective bans on Judith and me without the moderators being seen to "back down".

Let's face it, the bans are going to go sooner or later, it's just a question of whether the moderators need to be forced into it or not. I think most of them have now realised the foolishness and absurdity of the situation, so let's hope they follow through and deal with it, if only for their own sakes.