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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!k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <266b1375-8fc2-45fd-8dd6-5fa60c1c2de7@k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling,uk.net.news.config Subject: Re: 2nd RFD: create moderated newsgroup uk.rec.cycling.moderated Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:34:59 -0700 (PDT) References:       <87my7oi9wi.fsf@toy.config>  Lines: 33 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.153.43.239 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246473299 22796 127.0.0.1 (1 Jul 2009 18:34:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:34:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.153.43.239; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3080 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:6364 uk.net.news.config:54957

On Jul 1, 7:07=A0pm, chris French  wrote: > In message <87my7oi9wi....@toy.config>, Daniel Barlow  > writes > > >Tom Crispin  writes: > > >> Do you think for one minute that each and every member of urc agree > >> with your entire choice of pannel? =A0No. =A0Probably not one person d= oes, > > >I don't see anyone there who I really don't want. =A0And since their onl= y > >role qua moderator is to accept my posts or not - they're not > >representing my opinons or passing laws that affect me - I really don't > >worry whether they're the best *possible* people for the job, merely > >that they're adequate. =A0And as far as I can see, they are. =A0(That is= not > >intended to sound like damning with faint praise: I am sure that they > >are more than adequate really) > > Yup, I'm happy with the choice of mods, for a similar rationale.

Would you still be happy with them if they were exactly the same people, except they thought that cyclists should be made to wear helmets, speed cameras killed people, etc? I suspect the answer is "No", as it surely is with pretty much everyone else who supports the selection. It's nothing to do with whether they'll be good or fair at moderating, it's just to do with their opinions.

This whole thing is an exercise in censorship of the "wrong" opinions, and supporters such as you are supporters because you're aware of that, if only subconsciously.