Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 23:40:24 08/14/00
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On August 14, 2000 at 17:57:42, Pete Galati wrote: >On August 14, 2000 at 15:41:30, Jari Huikari wrote: > >>On August 13, 2000 at 14:29:08, Dave Gomboc wrote: >> >>>Nonetheless, I don't sit down and go around hunting for such threads so that >>>they can be removed, because I acknowledge that some people don't want this to >>>happen, and that's not what I said I'd do in my nomination statement. One can >>>attempt to paint me as an over-zealous off-topic post deleter, but a glance >>>through the archives of any of the months I've been a moderator for easily >>>disspells such a myth. There's all kinds of stuff that I happen to see and let >>>slide, and probably even more that I don't see to begin with. >> >>How did you happen to see that small thread about Nero's and Golem's >>correspondence games two or three weeks ago? Did you get complaints via >>moderator E-mail from some members? >> >>It wasn't deleted. But I didn't understand why you intruded such a small >>harmless thread while you saw many other stuff and let it slide that time. >>It felt a little over-zealous. >> >>That was only time I wasn't satisfied. > >Moderators sweep things under the carpet, so if you're not directly involved in >what they're moderating, you tend not to notice all that much. > >They help to create a fake pleasantness in the CCC forum. They narrow down what >is acceptable to post here subject wise, and they also try to prevent people >from venting anything here. > >So people here have a difficult time bluntly insulting someone here, but it's a >BS way of doing things because instead people just find other more subtle ways >of insulting each other. > >I was more than happy to move the games to a different forum. This forum wasn't >working out. And as someone did point out, there was already precedence for >what we were doing, so either his moderating that thread was interfering with >yet another one of the threads I was involved in, or he didn't have enough >respect for the 2 programs in the games. It was different in the game with TCB? > I doubt that it was different, other than maybe the 2 programs involved, and >the people involved. > >Pete > >> >>All in all I'd like to thank you and the other two moderators for good job! >> >> Jari The last statement from a moderator in that thread was that it was okay to continue. That you didn't was your choice. Dave
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