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On Mar 14, 10:56=A0am, Geoff Berrow  wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:05:18 +0000, > > real-not-anti-spam-addr...@apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote: > >> >"I don't want to be the person who displaces you, but I would be happ= y > >> >if someone did"? > > >> Well that's what I don't get. > > >I don't think anyone in their right mind would be very keen to become a > >moderator of URCM. > > I think they make it unnecessarily complicated. =A0I don't see why it > should be any different =A0to moderating any other group.

Exactly. There is a particular type of cyclist that is unnecessarily touchy about particular opinions being expressed and "out to get" people who express them. One could argue that that was the real cause of the "problems" in URC in the first place, but at any rate, anyone who isn't one of the "touchy cyclists" and is genuinely happy to moderate URCM in the same way as any other group shouldn't find it any more onerous or difficult than any other group. Daniele Procida would appear to be adequate on that front, and his apparent competence in moderating ULM is a bonus.

The only reason why moderating URCM is seen as a "poisoned chalice" is that the current lot get so much flak. But despite what some may claim, they don't get that flak from *anyone* simply because they're moderating a cycling group, they get it because they (or at least some of them) are doing a terrible job, which Daniele Procida has said himself just recently. Once URCM starts being moderated like any other group, there will be no more hostility towards it than there is towards ULM or any other moderated group. Of that I am certain.