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On Apr 5, 9:07=A0am, Peter Clinch  wrote: > > "Civil and pleasant" isn't as black and white as you make out. =A0Droning > on and on in such a way that the character of the place you are droning > on and on /in/ is changed is *not* "civil and pleasant". =A0It's actually > quite a fine line and it doesn't reduce to a simplistic yes/no flow chart= .

Yes, well done, the more you can obfuscate and make things woolly, the more excuse you've got to reject Matt B's posts while allowing your friends'. Good show, keep it up (for the 5 minutes you've got left as "moderator", anyway).

The scary thing is, I think you may genuinely believe that you're being fair. I think you might have actually persuaded yourself that you're doing a good job. That's scarier in a way than if you were just being cold, calculating and malevolent.