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I know there was a guy called Serge banned for being generally disruptive and a bit of a tw*t, but not sure where Squires gets off with the whole fraud thing, $6,000, etc.. Strange fellow.
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The guy has patently lost it and is the most unsuitable individual to be given the 'power' to moderate. I have sadly not been 'banned' but have not returned to that place since my posts were removed. Can't say my life is any less complete ! Though some lovely people on there. Pity about that wally.
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There are a few people who write there whom I like to converse with, so I would like the place to be less agressive so I might enjoy it more. As it is, it tends to bring out the worst in me, so I rarely go there except for Musary stuff.
Having followed Serge's stuff here and there on the internet, I can fully understand why Mark is more than a little angry. I may not agree with the policies that followed, but I do understand. FWIW, here's TORB's little piece on Serge.
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-------------------- I don't drink wine because of religious reasons ... only for other reasons. Posts: 5243 | From: Helsinki, Finland | Registered: Jan 2005
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Would love to know how they hope to enforce that.
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quote:Originally posted by Tom Cannavan: From henceforth forward all mentions of the word "pinotage" will incur a penalty fee of $6,000 US.
Unless they invoke the Sanity Clause.
Surely sparkling Shiraz should fall within the same criteria?
-------------------- Mark -------------------------------- If you don't want to see the score, look away now. "For when the One Great Scorer comes / To mark against your name / He writes – not that you won or lost / But how you played the Game." Grantland Rice Posts: 12480 | From: Dorset, England | Registered: Jan 2005
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Emily, will you marry me? Did he leave you all his money? Answer the second question first.
-------------------- "...cricket in evening sunlight, however sterile the contest, can never be altogether without beauty." Posts: 2488 | From: Newcastle upon Tyne | Registered: May 2004
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My two favourite quotes about Chico in real life are:
When an interviewer asked him how much money he'd lost from gambling, Chico's reply was "Find out how much money Groucho's got. That's how much I've lost."
After Chico's death brother Gummo said "Chico's favourite people were actors who gambled, producers who gambled, and women who screwed."
Posts: 914 | From: welwyn garden city | Registered: Dec 2005
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Seems like a comedy sketch - actually not unlike some of Mark's moderation - for instance his banning of Alice Feiring. That said, who'd want that job on that site!
Posts: 2962 | From: Basel, Switzerland | Registered: Apr 2004
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I rarely look at eBob, only when people here post links to it. This is a classic, but it got me thinking. I've always reckoned that one of the reasons that wine-pages forum is so generally civilised is the use of real names, but it doesn't seem to work on eBob!
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Agreed Hugh,and I think the trend by some on here to change their names is setting a unwelcome precedent. And it is about time our moderator got his act together and banned them
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Squires is a most extraordinary man, with a most extraordinary site.
Posts: 1784 | From: Newcastle upon Tyne | Registered: Apr 2004
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'Extraordinary' being a euphemism for.....?
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