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Subject: Re: Moderation: Cut me a break!

Author: Bella Freud

Date: 14:34:00 11/17/99

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Hi Uri,


On November 17, 1999 at 16:59:47, blass uri wrote:

>On November 17, 1999 at 10:12:12, Bella Freud wrote:
>
><snipped>
>>>>Now the current post. Is it moderator post, or not moderator post?
>>>
>>>
>>>Not really that difficult. If you had been paying attention, you'd notice that
>>>the moderation posts start with "Moderation:".
>>>
>>
>>Doh !
>>
>>Blass Uri started this thread with "Moderation:insults". He is not a moderator.
>>Thus the thread is about "moderation" and was not entitled by a 'moderator'.
>
>The moderators told the members say to use the word moderation in the subject if
>the subject is about moderation.
>This is the reason I started with the word moderation in the title.
>
>karinsdad explained that he is responding with his moderator
>hat on when the word moderation is on the subject
>and with his moderator hat off if the subject begin without the word moderation.

Oh right. So if there is "Moderation" in the title and the thread is started by
a non-moderator then whenever a moderator joins in he is speaking with his hat
on. Right.

So I must be more careful not to get nuked when this happens.

>
><snipped>
>>First rule of those trying to never answer anything. Turn it round the other way
>>!!!
>>
>>And 'final' decision? News to me. I thought discussion of moderation issues was
>>allowed here. Something aout Orwellian if not.
>
>Discussions about moderation issues are allowed here if you use the word
>moderation as the first word of the subject.
>
>The moderators explained it in an email to the members some monthes ago.
>
>>
>>You've been trying to get me banned for days now. Hence your provocations.
>>
>>Actually it says "perhaps" above, meaning any one of the possibilities (see
>>below) given might or might not be true.
>>
>>Personally I think it is the third case listed. You have a hidden agenda. That
>>is to be a 'pretend programmer' to gain status withing the hierarchy, and then
>>to use that status to get yourself elected as moderator.
>
>I do not know.
>There were not many candidates to be moderators because most of the people did
>not want this job.
>
>I declined this job but I may change my mind about it in 2000.

If I am not nuked by then, I will propose you. I am sure you would show wisdom.


>I did not decide about it.
>
>I did not vote for karinsdad because of the fact that he does not give his real
>name.

This was indeed strange.

Bella


>
>I do not think that people voted for him because they believe that he did a
>chess program.

I think it helps to get credibility here to be a programmer. In fact it is
almost an imperative.

>I understood that he does not claim that he developed a chess program and he
>only tries to do it.
>
>Uri




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