Nuxx:MPG.2733fbcc7c4a51a598982c@news.zen.co.uk

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!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.astraweb.com!border5.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!feeder.news-service.com!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: URCM Blocklist Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:35:37 +0100 References:  Lines: 54 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 101028-0, 28/10/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: fb443270.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=HG_lmo082^h]RGn>>0bnok4Z\3cB^f=jEn, jmsmith2010 @live.co.uk says... > > I just wonder - are people actually told these days when and why they > have been blocklisted. > > I wasn't actually told correctly - but I would hope that the > moderators do have the decency to tell people now. > > Do they?

Yet more pertinent and reasonable questions completely ignored by the URCM moderators with the usual arrogance and complete lack of courtesy. They either don't realise, or more likely choose to pretend not to realise, that they *have* to answer questions about the running of URCM, no matter who they come from, and they *have no option about it*. They, under the instruction of their leader, are behaving as though they are completely unaccountable, but they absolutely are not (or at least they shouldn't be). Very soon I hope we will find out that they are not unaccountable in practice (as they are presumably counting on) either. They've had more than enough chances to play ball without being forced to. Sadly, there are now no more options left.

The copious, neverending and inevitably justified criticism of URCM's "moderation" methods is dealt with in one of two ways with each particular point made. If it is from someone who is not considered favoured or important enough, it is simply ignored. If it is from someone who is considered greater than subhuman, the comments are always systematically fobbed off, basically disregarded with lip service paid to them, and things carry on exactly as before. Everyone knows that's the case. Jackson thinks that now he's got his foot in the door, by hoodwinking everyone with the original RFD and assuring them that it wasn't going to be like this, he's invincible...he's done the hard part and now he can just thumb his nose at those who didn't want URCM to be a private club, and would never have voted for it if they'd known he was going to run it along those lines.

This abuse of the system won't wash and the "moderators" won't get away with it forever: they cannot simply run a uk.* newsgroup as if it's a private newsgroup/web forum, ignoring any and all responsibilities which come with the privileges of having a uk.* group, simply because that suits Jackson's agenda of book-burning. (Quite what kind of person you have to be to react like this to any truth that you dislike, going to almost inconceivable lengths to stop that truth from being spoken in prerefence to just accepting how things are, is another matter, but I doubt it's any coincidence that obviously reasonable and nice people like Geoff Berrow, Mark Goodge and others have long-standing disputes with Jackson where it would appear that Jackson is very much in the wrong: when Jackson knows he's on dodgy ground, he doesn't play nice and he doesn't play fair. He's really not very pleasant).

Jackson's arrogant intolerance and censorship is coming to an end. Maybe it was even he himself who first uttered those prophetic words, but whoever it was, I'm confident that they'll turn out to be true.