Nuxx:Bd2b215a-d2a7-48fc-a647-3dc697c2bb3e@n10g2000yqf.googlegroups.com

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!n10g2000yqf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: Address needed before posting Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:41:12 -0800 (PST) References:   Lines: 29 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 1297356072 24390 127.0.0.1 (10 Feb 2011 16:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n10g2000yqf.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: 2862 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:37274

On Feb 10, 3:58=A0pm, Sara  wrote: > Who the fuck do they think they are?

That sums it up very nicely. The almost pathological desire to punish those with the wrong opinions by stopping them from posting, even when they're not posting those opinions, and even when it's not definite that the person concerned is one of them at all, is there for all to see. URCM is little more than a way of taking revenge on those who refuse to fall into line, and if a few "innocent" people also get punished inadvertently, then that's definitely a price worth paying (a bit like the spiteful road "safety" policies which the "moderators" tend to support).

The most important thing by far is that those who are disliked by the "moderators" are excluded and made to realise in no uncertain terms that it's them and their opinions, rather than what they might happen to actually post, which are being kept out at all costs. And if the "moderators" want to go to whatever lengths they need to to do that then they shall, and it's their business and no-one else's, and no-one should be moaning about it on here: it's their private club, after all.

If moderation was really being done for the right, stated reasons then there would be absolutely no need to judge on anything but the content of posts. Wondering who a poster might or might not be would be completely unnecessary, as would banning people. This latest nonsense just adds to the mountain of evidence showing that the original RFD was a nasty, cynical exercise in deception. It looks like people are cottoning on to that more and more.