Election Year or Fear!

[Geoff Parkstone]

Agreed. Matthew Parris - a decent and compassionate Tory - has suggested that ‘if one was to remove ambition from the core of Robert Jenrick he would collapse like a boneless chicken’. There are far too many who fit that description.

....and if you were to remove ambition from the core of everyone, the economy and then society would collapse. Ambition drives entrepreneurship and even the simple act of getting out of bed. If noone had ambition....everything would collapse indeed. its a ludicrous comment IMHO to criticse anyone for having ambition as if its a bad thing

[ramAnag]

Correct no PM function even for mods. No idea about TTR's whereabouts. Mod privileges have been curtailed drastically in the past couple of years so I can't 'interrogate' (it used to be down to Ip address level which was a bit 'off' IMO and I only used it once when chasing a rogue user), including whether he's just quiet (he posted about a month or so ago) or left - there is no 'latest activity' date on his profile which might suggest he's deactivated his account but I think not revealing activity was an option when I first joined, might be wrong on that.

Not been pushed by me, he'd had a few yellow cards and warning PMs when I had that 'power' but he wasn't even top of the list for expulsion, but for some time mods appear not to have any sanction power at all

So you can’t fix anything, can’t get a reply from the owners, your ‘privileges have been curtailed’ and you no longer have any ‘sanction power’. Begs the question, is there any longer any such thing as a moderator?
Maybe MAGA stands for Make Andy Great Again.

[Geoff Parkstone]

As there's no PM function these days, I'll ask the question here. Is TTR back in Thailand or has there been something happen that I missed and he's left (or been pushed)?

When I started to read this I thought it was another anti Starmer post in the making....

[Andy_Faber]

So you can’t fix anything, can’t get a reply from the owners, your ‘privileges have been curtailed’ and you no longer have any ‘sanction power’. Begs the question, is there any longer any such thing as a moderator?
Maybe MAGA stands for Make Andy Great Again.

Please don't start the tiresome moderator bashing again, it doesn't reflect well. I was just offering RP as comprehensive a response as I could.

[Geoff Parkstone]

So you can’t fix anything, can’t get a reply from the owners, your ‘privileges have been curtailed’ and you no longer have any ‘sanction power’. Begs the question, is there any longer any such thing as a moderator?
Maybe MAGA stands for Make Andy Great Again.

Agreed, these are basically now unregulated forums (fora?). Can we go back to East Fife again

[Andy_Faber]

When I started to read this I thought it was another anti Starmer post in the making....

Faber for PM

[ramAnag]

....and if you were to remove ambition from the core of everyone, the economy and then society would collapse. Ambition drives entrepreneurship and even the simple act of getting out of bed. If noone had ambition....everything would collapse indeed. its a ludicrous comment IMHO to criticse anyone for having ambition as if its a bad thing

God you’re so extreme and use the tactic of misinterpretation so regularly.

Who has said that we should ‘remove ambition’? Who has criticised anyone for having ambition? MP’s point was that when ambition outweighs ability, as it clearly does, imo, in Jenrick’s case, then you have a problem. My point was, that I’ve come across many people in many walks of life who’s ambition has unrealistically exceeded their ability - from kids at school who think they’re going to be pro footballers to Liz Truss believing she’d be a successful PM - and it invariably ends in tears.

[ramAnag]

Please don't start the tiresome moderator bashing again, it doesn't reflect well. I was just offering RP as comprehensive a response as I could.

I’m not. I’m just lightheartedly checking. ‘Joshing’, if you prefer. Anyway I can’t bash something that doesn’t exist and, as far as I understand, the position of moderator is no more.

[Andy_Faber]

I?’m not. I?’m just lightheartedly checking. ?‘Joshing?’ if you prefer. Anyway I can?’t bash something that doesn?’t exist.

Thats OK then. Wasn't sure you understood the concept

[ramAnag]

Thats OK then. Wasn't sure you understood the concept

Hardly complex is it? You’re a moderator, in name only, seems to about sum it up.