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On Mar 7, 8:01=A0am, Matt B  wrote: > On 07/03/2011 00:05, Danny Colyer wrote: > > Straw poll results

So, despite Jackson's best efforts, he seems to have only found 7 readers of URCM (some of whom may not even post) who think like he does: "I don't like Matt B exposing my prejudices as irrational, and I would rather stop Matt B from doing that than address and correct my prejudices, deep-seated as they are. I want somewhere where I can be wrong in peace and prioritise ideology above safety, and I want Matt B to be bullied into not reminding me of reality."

Just 7 people out of everyone think along such obnoxious, unreasonable lines, and 2 of them only to some extent. It's a drop in the ocean, a tiny minority, a handful of extremists who can be safely disregarded when running URCM. (You can bet that all people who think like that voted, yet we know that plenty of the more reasonable readers/posters refused to participate on principle.)

This is obviously great news, and as predicted, Jackson's nasty little scheme has well and truly backfired, more than I dared hope. It's unsurprising that by the looks of things, Jackson was *still* determined to spin the results in his favour. But it's encouraging that he has apparently been overruled by the other "moderators", and so his latest "Straw Poll" post to URCM has been rejected (although it would be nice to see what it said, and every time "reject discard" is misused, it's yet another deliberate breach of the charter).

Jackson will of course still "moderate" in the same old obnoxious way, so Matt B would be well advised to try to post when Jackson is unlikely to be on duty (not that he should have to). Still, this is a significant victory and a definite step forward. In a way Jackson could not possibly have shown more effectively how little support there truly is for his draconian attitude towards Matt B. He's proven that as I and others have said for ages, it really is just Chapman, Lee, the Raven, "Ace" and a couple of others. If Jackson carries on the way he has been then he'll show beyond doubt that he's running URCM exclusively for himself and other like-minded people rather than "UK cyclists", "Usenet" or any other such rubbish.

The net continues to close in.