Nuxx:MPG.27161b6ff968283c989818@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!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: URCM: "Reject Mission" Being (Ab)used Just as Expected Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 06:38:03 +0100 Lines: 28 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 21c47ca8.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=OYaLEd02nU\cM80G9H[=A\YjZGX^207P[`a] X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2506 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:34080

I see that the URCM moderators have already got well and truly stuck in with using the new "mission" rejection category in exactly the way that they (and most others) envisaged. There wasn't even a period when they went easy in an effort to prove the "whingers" wrong...they don't care what people think, they're the URCM moderators.

Exactly as predicted, "reject mission" is now routinely being used to reject any Matt B post which contains any "banned" opinions or facts. No further explanation is ever added at the top. It's so blatantly obvious that the censors were looking for an excuse to reject posts of his which weren't in any way harmful to the discussion of cycling (but did contain inconvenient truths), they created the "mission" category for exactly that reason, and now they're using it in exactly the way that you'd expect.

This mass-rejection of perfectly reasonable posts because of the opinions they contain, coupled with a continued refusal to give a specific reason why, simply isn't how a moderated public newsgroup should be run. Assuming that unbiased rationality will triumph in the end, this is surely another nail in the coffin for URCM as it currently is. Maybe, as many have already stated, Ian Jackson really should resign...that would solve at least 25% of the problem I think.

Jackson's arrogant intolerance and censorship is coming to an end, Clinch and Braggins too. (OK, I admit it, I stole that from "St. Michael Chapman"'s parody of me a few months ago...it's a good 'un though! Feel like identifying yourself yet, St. Mike?  Oh go on...why the reluctance to do so?)