Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 01:14:55 06/05/99
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On June 05, 1999 at 02:05:47, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On June 04, 1999 at 19:03:51, Steven Schwartz wrote: > >>Nominees... >>A while back, there was a thread started called >>"Kasparov is a GOD". It ostensibly dealt with the >>world champion and not, necessarily, computer >>chess. How would you handle such a thread? And >>did it need handling? >> >>- Steve (ICD/Your Move) >>P.S. I recommend that other threads directed >>toward nominees have the word "nominee" in the >>subject heading. > >Here was the original post, in total: > >http://www.icdchess.com/ccc/message.html?54072 > > Posted by Mark on June 03, 1999 at 10:22:53: > > Kasparov is a GOD. > > He will crush Anand into a million grains of sand, > he will then put those grains (every last one of > them) into a box, and then throw a cat in it. > >If you look at the top of your screen, it says "Computer-Chess Club", not >"Computer Chess Club". The hyphen was my idea. I wanted this to be a place for >discussion of computer chess, not a place where people use their computers to >discuss chess. > >I think this particular post is terrible because it's not even remotely related >to computer chess, and is guaranteed to start a big long discussion of the >relative merits of Kasparov and Anand, which will probably end up involving a >lot of chest thumping and no discussion of computer chess at all. I included >the content of the post here so you could verify what I just said, since it is >important to get the interpretation of the post right. > >So honestly, if it were up to me, and nobody had responded to that yet, I would >get rid of the damned thing, and send the guy some email reminding him of why >the hyphen is in the title of this place. This wouldn't have been a warning or >a yellow card or anything, but if the guy did it again a few days later I might >react differently. > >If there had been some responses to it, I probably would have done what Harald >did, which was ask people to please stop. You say this so much more politely than Harald did. He did not exactly say "please". His message was quite a shocker (volume-wise) to this bleary-eyed person who hadn't really woken up yet when he had the misfortune to come across it. In any case, I would have been happier if that off-topic thread was nuked, beginning troll to all responses. Then I wouldn't have spent time reading each of the individual messages, and neither would many other people who are reading for "computer-chess" information. Dave
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