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Subject: Re: Moderation: Can the moderators be trusted to REALLY ban someone?

Author: Roger

Date: 21:50:47 02/07/00

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On February 07, 2000 at 17:46:22, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>
>It's right before an election.  I think you can expect people to throw in their
>2 cents even more than normal (though I admit that not having an upcoming
>election has never stopped me from expressing my opinion!)
>
>On a slightly different topic, it is my opinion that the frequency of disruptive
>posts increases sharply in the last month or so before new elections are held.
>It is even my opinion that this somewhat peculiar timing is a willful and
>deliberate action by the parties responsible for such posts.  But, I digress.
>
>Dave

I agree with what you are saying, Dave. Elections are kind of an "Amok time" if
you recall the old Star Trek episode.

I think ChrisW knows that, too, and I think he has chosen that time to act out
on this forum, to prove that he can indeed manipulate when he wants to. It
wouldn't surprise me if his agenda was simply to make the outgoing team of
moderators look bad, though he is certainly capable of randomly being a bad boy.

And yet, we tolerate this guy again and again, letting him come back under alias
after alias.

I go back to the "bad ole" days of RGCC (I know you do, too), and for me, ChrisW
was one of three people (Rolf and Sean being the others), that CCC was formed to
escape. Without these three, there would be no CCC (probably Rolf and Sean more
than ChrisW, to be fair, but ChrisW was trouble enough).

Strangely, the moderators, who are fighting tooth and nail to keep the power to
suspend posting privileges, have proven incapable of doing so with regard to
ChrisW. We ought to find out why and we ought to fix it, so that the moderators
can at least enjoy some genuine power, which they do not seem to possess with
regard to ChrisW.

Roger





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