On Aug 24, 3:05 pm, Tudor Hughes  wrote:
> On Aug 24, 9:59 am, Dawlish  wrote:
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> > On Aug 24, 2:59 am, Tudor Hughes  wrote:
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> > > On Aug 23, 10:25 am, John Hall  wrote:
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> > > > In article
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> > > >  RWood  writes:
> > > > >Members of forums in my country are now citing this one as the worst
> > > > >of all when it comes to constant moaning. It is in serious need of
> > > > >moderators.
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> > > > Even if this newsgroup could be converted into a moderated one, surely
> > > > it wouldn't be the purpose of a moderator to prevent moaning? A
> > > > moderator's job is normally seem as being to reject abusive and
> > > > off-topic posts, and moaning about the weather doesn't fall under either
> > > > of those categories..
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> > > > The group must be doing something right if New Zealanders are so
> > > > interested in it.
> > > > --
> > > > John Hall
> > > >                 "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
> > > >                  that man can never learn anything from history."
> > > >                                           George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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> > >    This group doesn't need moderators most of the time but one use for
> > > them readily springs to mind.
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> > If we had moderators (perish the thought; moderation is ruining other
> > sites by stifling discussion and imposing artificial moralities which
> > now exist only on those sites, via the collective minds of the
> > moderators) you would have perished Tudor. The calling of another
> > contributor a c*** would have initiated an automatic ban on every
> > weather forum on the Internet except for this ng. If you persist in
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>        I threw in a piece of rope and sure enough you hanged
> yourself.  The point is that you have actually been banned from
> certain groups and it is just faintly possible that the fault lies not
> with the moderators thereof but with yourself.  Get a mirror.
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Hanged? Hardly, dear boy! I am completely open about my Internet
weather past in my profile and I always have been since joining this
ng. I was never banned for using abusive language that you have used,
TH, I can assure you. I was banned for upsetting particular people by
pointing out enormous holes in their arguments and not giving them
enough wriggling space in which to move. So instead of having the
wherewithal to back their specious opinion, they tended to throw their
toys out of the pram and threaten to leave until the moderators did
something. People similar in many ways to yourself. The site owners
were very reasonable and friendly people who I've never had any
argument with and with whom I exchanged many emails about how their
sites could, perhaps, be moderated differently, but they backed their
moderators. I've never blamed Paul, Brian and Andrew. I'd probably
have done the same. Why not have a read of my profile? But you have
anyway and you are aware of my openness! Thus that becomes a rather
unworkable weapon to try to use, don't you think? It's certainly not
not a worry to me and I'm in contact with the many friends I've made
on a regular basis.

Also, TH. you don't fool us - I'll bet you scanned every word of the
other post for any mention of yourself! *>)) Your failings, dislikes
and prejudice appear to be growing larger again with each post. Don't
forget, you started this again with your unnecessary innuendo. I await
the abuse.....as usual - or another threat to leave and never return.

Interesting weather coming up for the end of August, Tudor? What do
you reckon?

Paul