Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 10:04:34 07/24/00
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> If I jump in here and imply that you are an > idiot, the reason to moderate is *not* that I may harm your > self-esteem. Maybe you and I are both very thick-skinned, > and can amuse ourselves by hurling insults at each other > until we die of old age. But why should the board > allow space for that garbage? I was defending that type of "discussion." I agree with your points on the manners of discussion. But the issue which started this thread was whether the "best five chess programmers" topic should be censored upfront. Any topic can be discussed in a civilized way and other ways. Banning these kinds of rankings for fear of offending someone (by not having as high opinion of their achievement as they might have) is rooted in the same kind of political correctness gone mad as that of the Massachusetts soccer moms banning the scoring of the kids' soccer game to avoid hurting the feelings of the children in the losing team. So the question I was addressing is whether the moderators should act as psychics and try predicting what topics could perhaps turn out uncivilized and ban them based on their clairvoyance. Or should the moderators stick to banning only the actual explicit offenses, leaving the clairvoyance business to the psychic hotline.
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