Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 01:29:57 08/15/00
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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. > I'm not sure what you mean here? When we delete anything we email everyone involved and let them know. There was a recent case where we sent an email to the wrong address, but I think that's cleared up now. >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 > I think your idea of what moderation should be is very different from Dave's (and also pretty different from mine). Obviously there's no problem with that; I'd guess *everyone* here has different ideas about it. What I object to in what you write is the way you try to make out that the forum doesn't work, when what you mean is that you don't like the way the forum works. Anyway, you'll have three different moderators in a couple of days. Quite possibly they'll see things more like you do. Andrew
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