Author: Hristo
Date: 12:21:02 06/06/99
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On June 05, 1999 at 12:13:45, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Steven: >I have read the post by the other candidates and I truly wonder what a heck I am >doing here. It seems that my thought about this matter is so opposed and >different to that of almost any other guy that I must conclude I am out of >place, completely wrong, an excentric kind of criature. I say this because I >cannot understand that a thread about anything connected with chess could be >targeted as deserving deletion or even to begin a discussion of such a thing. >I say more: anything discussed here, no matter the topic, it is for me on topic >provided there are answers to it and so people interested in it. And if there >are not, where the damage is? I cannot understand this obsesion with purity >because the site has "computer-chess" name and no "computer chess". Even in the >most serious magazines of the world you can find room for gossip, cartoons, >jokes, etc. So what? If I want to discuss a jazz record with somebody here >because this is a computer-chess site and so I can get a different appraoch to >that than in a jazz site, what is the problem? >With this polity of content- cleansing waht we are going to get is more of the >same, saym, people going out and a deeper and deeper fall in just technical >stuff. Maybe some people here forget this is not a scientific publication, but >just a site. I would run out of here in a rush the day I only see post about >hash tables. >Fernando Fernando, you are a great candidate for a moderator!(count +1 vote) However I have to disagree with you on the general topic here. Just because the word "chess" is used in a message it doesn't *mean* that the message is related to chess! I think that is more important to look for the response to a message to see how people percieve the meaning of the message, and if it gets out_of_hand then one that has the power should act! It is not easy to draw the line, but just like a chess program doesn't evaluate a single position, it needs to go a few plys deep to determine if things are going well or not, a moderator should evaluate the flow of the conversation and not just the original message. No "clensing" or prejudice towards ideas should be part of a moderators job. This is dificult to achieve. The message at hand ... didn't get out of control, however it is one of those that can easily do so. Hope to see you as moderator. Best regards. Hristo
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