>> 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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