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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!t11g2000vbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <7d711536-d6e2-44d4-82fe-e37103af20ee@t11g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: A possible solution to the trolling problem on this news group Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 01:43:48 -0700 (PDT) References: <5c210d41-6589-4556-87a1-a8d0cc1e29fb@z19g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>   Lines: 23 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1241945028 26358 127.0.0.1 (10 May 2009 08:43:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 08:43:48 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t11g2000vbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; 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: 2446 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:700482

On May 9, 6:35=A0pm, "Adam Lea"  wrote: > > What motivated these trolls to attempt to wreck the newsgroup is not clea= r, > however I suspect some of the more extremist statements against motorists= > may have had something to do with it. > > *e.g.http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.cycling/msg/69b810a257d1fcb2= ?...

So wouldn't it be better to stop the extremist statements against motorists from being made (instead of attempting to bully those "trolls" who quite reasonably take exception to such statements)? This could be done extremely effectively simply by removing Doug, Brian Robertson, Chapman and Spindrift. The vast majority of anti- motorist statements come from those four posters (and sycophants of Chapman, who would hopefully STFU once he went).

Although if we had to keep Doug then so be it. He's more comical and less malicious than the other three, who are deserving of nothing but the deepest contempt. (Actually, Robertson is comical as well, but darkly so, and he's too disturbing to be much fun all in all.)