Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 12:36:40 07/08/98
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On July 08, 1998 at 15:22:18, Bruce Moreland wrote: >I can't help but keep thinking about something that happened a while back, and I >apologize for starting another non-chess thread, but this is bothering me. > >Vincent wrote a post that had something to do with killer books. > >A moderator responded, I'm not sure it was the first response, but it was early >on, something to the effect of, "this is factualy wrong, you have been told this >before, but you won't believe this, let's delete this post." Another moderator >came along and said, "Yes, delete it". > >Before Steven could delete it, I think there was another post that said, "no, >don't delete this!". Maybe that was mine, I don't remember, but I think there >was at least one non-me involved. > >Did I dream this, or did it actually happen, and was that post actually deleted? > >I would like to know what people think about the idea of deleting posts like >this. > >Personally I think this is a bad reason to delete a post. > >bruce I believe that there are VERY few good reasons to delete a post. Certainly someone being wrong is not a good reason to delete a post; otherwise, half of the posts on this board would be gone. I cannot recall a single post that was deleted because someone was simply wrong. - Steve
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