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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!postnews.google.com!g37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <68362f39-db3e-45ae-8a11-e726d674e93c@g37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Why Is Chapman *So* Despised? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:29:22 -0700 (PDT) References: <09532da1-63a8-4ba1-8f00-1cadf30b3404@g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <5bd0c64e-d986-4922-bd4c-a7d05011b7d3@z19g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>    Lines: 35 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.154.123.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1240532962 9654 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2009 00:29:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:29:22 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.154.123.12; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3308 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:697573

On Apr 23, 8:34=A0pm, Ian Smith  wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Sir Jeremy  wrote: > > =A0On 23 Apr, 13:33, Ian Smith  wrote: > > > > Rudi, If you really must, I can't stop you wallowing in the crap > > > if you like that sort of thing (though I observe that most people > > > don't), but please don't repost it in its entirety. > > > =A0Are you the deputy moderator ? > > Is English your first language? =A0I ask because it seems you have > parsed my simple request as an instruction. =A0That suggests your grasp > of English grammar may not be particularly thorough. > > If I was a moderator, it would be within my role to either instruct a > change of behaviour or (in extremis) to take action obliging such a > change. =A0As it is, I have confined myself to asking Rudi to modify his > behaviour. =A0You could try it - if someone does something you don't > like, politely ask them not to do it. =A0Obviously, it will be difficult > for you to frame such a request if you are not familiar with the > language, but in general, if you start a sentence (or clause) with > "please", it indicates that it is a request.

How utterly hilarious and witty. You really put him in his place, Jellybelly. Meanwhile, back in the real world, what a load of complete shit. What you said to RudeBoy *is* exactly what a half- decent moderator would say in the first instance; most wouldn't "pull rank" in any way until their polite requests were declined. That's not to say, of course, that you would be a half-decent moderator; far from it.

This very thread is about how much of a dickhead Chapman is in pretending to be the group's head moderator (among many other faults), yet you *still* go and behave like his deputy. Some people really don't get it, do they?