Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:11:21 09/14/01
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On September 14, 2001 at 11:27:52, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >Bob, who is "we" the moderators ? I think if you polled the members you would >find maybe more than 50 % are interested in the activity, albeit speculation of >one of the historical great chess players, and in our life time. > >Why can't this be a chess site ? Fischer is about chess. Oh I know he is not >about fail highs, fail lows, Alpha beta prunning, killer searches, extensions >etc. Right, this site is about computer chess, with all that means. Software, hardware, tournaments, matches, games, discussions of techniques. A little off-topic stuff is okay, but you might want to read the moderation statements by candidates, because this is apt to be a point of distinction. I think that the primary focus should be on computer chess. If you want to extend this to general chess discussions, we already have ... http://www.icdchess.com/forums/2 ... for those. If there are fewer readers there, that does not mean that stuff should be imposed here on those who do not choose to read that forum. >The endless ever ongoing discussions about the unfairnes of the Deep Fritz match >I think should have been of concern to you and your moderator panel members. How >about the barbs that go on and on and on, each and every thread further fueling >more threads. And then there is the four letter word language that finds it's >way in here ? I complained about that! There was and is not consistency in >admonishment of these topics. Some are warned, others are not. The Deep Fritz match is about computer chess. If people get after each other sometimes, the moderators can't make everyone like each other. The best they can do is put a stop to the egregious stuff and try to direct people to settle their disputes via email or telephone or some other appropriate means of communication between *two* people. I don't care about a few four-letter words, unless they are in titles. If you care, perhaps you should ask moderator candidates what they think. Moderation will always be inconsistent as long as we have three moderators and they don't take the time to agree on everything they do. The first time I was a moderator we discussed deletion of individual posts, because we had to *ask* Steve to delete posts. Now we can delete posts without having to ask, so moderators are tending to be autonomous about that. We still have to ask about deleting accounts, so that tends to be more of a group effort. I think that this has worked alright for us, as long as people understand that we have three different people, with different things that bother them, and different breaking points. >My displeasure with Bruce goes no deeper with me than his posting regarding >Fischer. I enjoy his posting about his program and all other post of his. He and >Christophe are but a few posters that I scan and read posts without even looking >at the topic as I know it is going to be of interest to me. Both of these >programmers have given at length description about their program, its history >and their mind set on the development of their programs. These posts were very >very interesting and appreciated. > >Respect my point of view, it is just mine but do not continue this >discouragement of the Fischer thing. Fischer is a bad topic for this group. The threads will quickly get out of hand, and there are better places to let that happen. I am basing this upon personal experience, not just a guess. bruce > >Wayne
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