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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!x13g2000vbe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40f6fe58-7f14-464b-a054-5a8e43b75117@x13g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: Confused about URCM in UNNM Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:58:23 -0800 (PST) References: <4_ydnZpOJKf8keXQnZ2dnUVZ8jKdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>    Lines: 28 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1299765504 27869 127.0.0.1 (10 Mar 2011 13:58:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:58:24 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x13g2000vbe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2850 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:38663

On Mar 10, 12:15=A0pm, Geoff Berrow  wrote: > On 10 Mar 2011 12:09:39 +0000 (GMT), Ian Jackson > >  wrote: > >As a respondent to the straw poll, ie as an individual user, I want > >one thing. =A0But as moderators our duty is to serve the users, not > >pander to our personal whims. > > Can you understand the concerns of people who might doubt that you > (personally) can actually do that?

Tactfully put, as ever (and yet Jackson *still* can't bear to read your inconvenient truths, which says a lot). Tyrannical leaders do after all have an extensive track record of telling the "plebs" what they think they want to hear and then doing the exact opposite of what they've promised. Jackson has done this many times before with URCM and all the signs are there that, without intervention, he will do it again. And again. He's far too stubborn to change in the slightest.

At the end of the day, whatever he says, he's only interested in running URCM entirely on his terms, i.e. ensuring that those who he dislikes and/or disagrees with are made unwelcome whatever they actually post. That must surely be entirely obvious to everyone by now. We can either continue to have Jackson in charge on that basis, or we need a new Chief Moderator; there is no possible scenario where Jackson continues his reign *and* people with "unfavoured" opinions on helmets etc are genuinely treated fairly. Jackson will *never let that happen*.