Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:48:52 05/16/98
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On May 15, 1998 at 12:16:33, Steven Schwartz wrote: >MY PERSONAL THOUGHTS.... >I would like to see a very short biography on each >nominee - to include: age, occupation (if any), chess >program fathered (if any), country, family, interests, >perhaps even personal thoughts about what types of >posts should be deleted or not deleted. > >-Steve Bruce Moreland 34 Babysitter Ferret USA I think that Steven Schwartz and Tim Mirabile should be allowed personal discretion regarding deletion of obvious trolls such as the recent post that contained "Fuck You" as the title and "No really, fuck you" as the content. Anything else should be worked out by the three moderators cooperatively. I can imagine some constructive threads here about what should be deleted, and what should be discouraged. I have been watching this place for a long time, and I have often wondered what would be the best thing to do about some particular sour post. I expect that post deletion should be extremely rare. Probably more common are "calm down and knock it off" emails. Hopefully people would get the message after one of these. The current crop of moderators handles things behind the scenes, so it is hard to know that something is being done, and it is hard to get a clue about what they're sending "knock it off" mail for and what they're letting slide. I would like to suggest that future moderators be more public about what they do, so people can get some idea about what the rules are. There is the danger that this will give people who want to cause destruction an idea of how far we can go, but I think the benefits of allowing the rest of us to know where the boundaries are, so we can stay well away from them, outweighs this. Sometimes we will have heated discussions that the moderators should stay away from. But I am very much interested that this place not turn into a forum for continued expression of grudges and pursuit of personal vendettas. The idea is that someone should be able to write posts that explore this field without having to worry that someone will accuse them of being a pedophile. bruce
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