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Subject: Moderation: get rid of chessmaster discussions??

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 23:36:26 07/05/00

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On July 05, 2000 at 15:20:54, Adrien Regimbald wrote:

>You know, I've never really understood why these messages were allowed on the
>CCC.  From what I can see, there are 4 or 5 interested people, and NOBODY else
>ever comments on it.  Personally I couldn't care less about the 20 rating points
>they manage to squeeze out of the personalities (if in fact they aren't just
>perfecting it for play against CM and making it actually weaker overall) and the
>gobs of games they use to justify which of their "creations" is better.  I'm
>sure that a lot of other people feel the same way.
>
>Why aren't these discussions moved to another forum, or maybe e-mail?  If it's
>only a few people posting/reading them, I don't see why the people involved
>don't just e-mail each other..
>
>
>Regards,
>Adrien.

By posting here, the conversation is made public -- everyone can read it, and
everyone can join in.  Whether 50 other people actually _do_ join in or not for
any particular case is more or less irrelevant -- usually it doesn't happen, but
occasionally it does.  Go back a few months in the archives, and you'll see some
truly massive threads re: Chessmaster 7000.

Let's face it: there's not enough traffic to really justify fragmenting the
board into such small pieces that "chessmaster" people have their own area,
"winboard" people have their own area, "algorithms" people have their own area,
etc.  Maybe some filtering capabilities on subject lines would be nice, but hey,
the web board is provided at no cost to me, so... <shrug>

In my opinion, a much better candidate for "take this to e-mail" would be the
case where two posters reply to each other ad nauseum about some
non-or-only-indirectly-related-to-computer-chess issue mainly because they don't
like each other.  Fortunately, that hasn't happened in the last while.

Dave



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