Re: Simon is impersonating me.

Jolyon Smith wrote:

When they do that, then an explanation absolutely is required if
TeamB, and by association CG, are to maintain their reputation.

Try to imagine what this group would look like if we were obligated to
discuss with any number of participants, whether we were justified for
cancelling any and every particular post. How many 1000s of additional
threads and messages do you think there'd be? This group would be completely
unusable.

What you are really saying is that you think we should get permission from
participants before cancelling posts, that this group should be run as some
sort of democracy. That's like saying that baseball umpires should tabulate
a vote by everyone in the stands to decide if someone was out at a base and
have no right to make that decision by themselves - but if that were really
so then there'd be no reason to have umpires - and there'd also be no way to
complete a baseball game *at all* let alone in some reasonable amount of
time.

The moderators of *any* moderated group do not need to answer to the group
for the reasons they cancel any post and to do so would simply make
conditions *worse* than if there was no moderation at all because it
explicitly *invites* armchair umpires to question every call.

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"Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others
as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse
pulling the wagon." - Winston Churchill


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