>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 02:50:43 -0500, StarFuryG7 wrote
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):

 I believe someone sees my post in the moderation cue, and
> just dumps it. <<

Ha!  It is so funny to come back  here after all this time and see what i=
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going on. StarFury, first of all, you can lay the blame square with me on=
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your Claudia post not getting through. I have had a VERY complex and toug=
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year, starting with my February surgery that went wrong, and had long-run=
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complications through the spring (hospital-acquired infection had me on a=
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line for months) followed by more complicated and painful physical therap=
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than I'd had before. Then came the late spring and summer, when my elderl=
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parents found a home down here, and I spent every weekend schlepping up t=
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New York with my husband to help them pack a lifetime of stuff and get th=
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house ready for the sale. Then they moved here, right around the block fr=
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me, and that quickly became a full time job that I didn't expect (taking =
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to supermarkets, doctors, stores, etc.). And then I went to Paris for a f=
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weeks on a much-deserved vacation. Then I came back, and it was election =
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=8B I'm a seasonal poll worker so this takes up some space in my life.  A=
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it is post-election, and I am back looking in on things. So, am I telling=
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all of this so you can play your tiny violin for me? Indeed no. I am just=
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telling you that I was more busy than usual all year long, and thus have =
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been holding up my end of things in moderation land. For at least a year,=
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this place has become so empty it is practically desolate. So instead of=20
popping in several times a day, every day, I have only been popping in to=
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moderate VERY occasionally, for which I apologize. But when week after we=
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goes by with NOTHING in the queue, I started to think that maybe this pla=
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was just being deserted by people hopping over to Facebook. Obviously I w=
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wrong, and I'll get back on the stick with my daily moderation. So, that =
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*specifically* not appearing was indeed my fault.

But the second point I want to make is this: I can't speak for anyone els=
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but as long as I have been moderating, which is some years, NO ONE is loo=
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at who is posting and deciding on that basis whether or not to approve it=
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You have a highly inflated opinion of yourself if you think that. Most of=
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are really quite busy with our actual lives, and we are doing this =8B=20
moderating, keeping the newsgroup running =8B=A0out of the kindness of ou=
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and a love for this property. Having said that, if I read something=20
inflammatory, you bet I will go back up and check who posted it. But on a=
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normal basis? If a post is a garden variety, non-inflammatory post, with =
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opinion or a link or a question, it's all most of us can do to have time =
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read it and approve it. No one is sitting around moderating and waiting f=
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your posts to show up just so we can bounce them. Sheesh, dude. And, srsl=
y.

Amy
Still here!

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Diligent Moderatrix
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