Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 04:41:16 01/19/99
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On January 18, 1999 at 14:30:49, Will Singleton wrote: Dear Will, >I apologize for the harsh tone I may have used in our private email >conversation. Sometimes in the rush to get something done, we ignore basic >standards of civility. This "coming out" and your public apology above show that you have enormous character and courage which deserves everybody's greatest respect and appreciation. You unconditionally have mine for your above statements. ----- Now some or even many people probably think that I started the whole discussion as a disguised personal crusade against you in order to satisfy my hunger of revenge for a hurt ego. But this was really not the case as evident by my careful avoidance of any direct name-calling in particular. I never intended to make specifically you come out and I never felt hurt by you *personally*. While they act officially, I view all moderators together as "moderational entity" without any personal distinction between the involved individuals. Therefore, the whole and only intended point of my discussion was the overall moderational style of the currently serving entity without focussing on any specific individual. Unfortunately, my according concerns w.r.t. to the overall moderational style have not yet disappeared >To your specific concerns at this time, I can only say that we have been elected >to do our best, and that we are doing our best to represent all the members of >CCC. We have just emerged from a long discussion, in which we were able to get >a solid agreement from all the moderators on the issue at hand. We spent a long >time doing that. It's just not feasible to adjust our moderation criteria each >time a member disagrees with us, [...] True enough. Of course, changes of moderation criteria should only be based on factual arguments and necessity. Neither the frequency of disagreement, nor the perceived standing of the respective CCC member (see below), nor the period of time since the last change ought to influence the decisions pro or contra potentially new changes. >[...], even a member such as yourself. Your allusion to my status in computer chess clearly implies that I try to misuse my perceived "high standing" in order to achieve special treatment. Do you really deem this highly personal reproach appropriate? I am not aware of any behaviour of mine which justifies your implication. I sincerely hope that any other CCC member (regardless of his or her perceived standing whatsoever) would have received similar attention and support by the CCC public if the same had happened to him instead of me. >Let's all try to work together to make CCC a viable place to discuss and enjoy >computer chess. I already said that I have no problems with agreeing to disagree about various aspects of overall moderational style. I agree with Bruce Moreland who stated that, instead of forbidding to quote their official email messages, the moderators should rather try to formulate them in such a way as to not be ashamed of any potential quotes. The consequence of the disagreements for me personally is that I stop to actively contribute to CCC for the time being -- no more, no less. =Ernst=
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