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Subject: Re: It Takes Much Effort!!

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 15:54:10 04/02/00

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On April 02, 2000 at 18:45:02, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On April 02, 2000 at 18:13:08, Derrick Williams wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>  IT takes a tremendous amount of effort to refrain from using four letter words
>>when discussing the present moderators and there abuse of power.  Take for
>>instance my post titled  "Why I think Crafty plays Lousy Chess",,,  This message
>>was deleted shortly after I posted it.  The reason given by the moderators was
>>that it was an allegeded obvious Troll!! Obvious to Whom and Why??  Are the
>>moderators claiming to be able to read my mind and tell me what I am thinking??
>>What my intentions are?? Why is expressing  a negative opinion taken as a
>>troll??? Does everything said about crafty have to be Good??
>>The truth is that I simply expressed an unpopular opinion, somehow this has been
>>equated with abuse. It is now a Crime in CCC to say anything bad about crafty.
>>There is a difference between stating a opinion such as  "Crafty plays Lousy
>>chess"  as opposed to a personal attack which would Read  The Programmer of
>>Crafty is a Lunatic".  So why was my post deleted, No abusive words were used.
>>ONLY AN OPINION WAS EXPRESSED.
>
>One of the moderators thought your post was a troll and deleted it.  If you
>didn't agree, why not send moderator email, and you and the three of us can hash
>things out from there?
>
>Dave

But then the second post was also deleted which was very abusive and insulting
towards the moderators.  There's some behavior problems at issue here.  I read
both of his deleted posts, and my reaction to both of them was that they were
out of line.  I was completely in favor of both of them being deleted.

Pete



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