See net cop in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Who the hell made you the newsgroup police? People are always posting I76 stuff here. It -IS- an action game, is it not? Why don't you tell all the Quakers here to go to alt.quake newsgroup? Or the Diabloers....etc. Or better yet, find something better to do than play net cop.",
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