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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!aotearoa.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!news.qsc.de!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: URCM : Blocking is Permanent Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 23:40:17 +0100 References: <86qvm4Ft1nU1@mid.individual.net> <86s2gdFea6U1@mid.individual.net> <6d14fe4d-f26d-4ac3-ab82-0279d2908307@k39g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <86t4ldFp8jU1@mid.individual.net>  <86t5d9Ft7sU1@mid.individual.net> <3YOdnVTXQdA2_JTRnZ2dnUVZ8r0AAAAA@brightview.co.uk> <86tcd8F4thU1@mid.individual.net>   <86vm98Fl3sU2@mid.individual.net>     Lines: 53 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 100606-1, 06/06/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 07e53cfa.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=KHBoWW5LKM\^J=NP?`dP`Znok4Z\WHXEn, key@under.the.invalid says... > > Guy Cuthbertson  wrote in > news:MPG.2675fce3c5dc4234989769@news.zen.co.uk: > > > In article , > > clive@xxxx-x.fsnet.co.uk says... > >> > >> On 06/06/2010 11:23, Tom Crispin wrote: > >> > On 5 Jun 2010 19:19:04 GMT, Simon Brooke > >> >  wrote: > >> > > >> >> Fundamentally the only people who can be trusted to moderate > >> >> are those who do not want to do it. > >> > > >> > That's a 'no' to Clive George's great ambition, then? > >> > >> ? > >> > >> What's moderation got to do with my trying to break evens on my > >> regular ride? > > > > Just a hunch but I don't think playing dumb is going to help on > > this occasion. > > > > At the very least you should accept that you've given a lot of > > disparate people the impression, correct or not, that you're > > trying to become a URCM moderator, and act accordingly (which > > means NOT playing dumb as it has gone beyond that stage). As I > > say, just a simple statement that that you have no interest in > > being a moderator would satisfy many I'm sure. Strange how it > > hasn't appeared. Every time you miss an opportunity to make such > > a statement, people become more suspicious, and justifiably so. > > > > I am quite sure that if he had wanted to be a moderator he would > have been accepted, and he does not have to do anything special to > prove his credentials. Supporting the moderators is not a crime, > they are not pariahs. Can't we all drop this tedious line of > argument, it is clearly not embarrassing Clive, even if it is > occasionally confusing Wm?

I still think he's blatantly sucking up to the real moderators, and that no-one (including them) is going to be impressed, and I don't necessarily think it is clear that mentioning it isn't embarrassing him, but fair point, there's probably little use in continuing to say it as everyone knows the score by now.

I guess I just find it surprising really: I've never got on with Clive but I didn't think there was anything particularly sycophantic or pathetic about him. I guess you can only tell so much about someone from reading their usenet posts, even quite a lot of them.