Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 00:52:54 08/09/00
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On August 09, 2000 at 01:47:42, Michael Cummings wrote: >On August 08, 2000 at 20:44:47, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>On August 08, 2000 at 17:21:51, Steven Schwartz wrote: >> >>>Some questions for our Moderator nominees: >>> >>>1) On a scale from 1 to 10 with 1 being the most tolerant >>>and 10 being the least tolerant, where would you place >>>yourself when it comes to posts that are off topic? >>> >> >>How is this to be interpreted? IE I don't like the chessmaster questions/ >>threads. So I don't read them. Would I delete them or inject moderator >>suggestions that they be stopped? No. >> >>So if you mean "personally, how do you rate your tolerance for off-topic >>posts and do you read them?" I would call myself a 6. If you mean "would >>you delete posts...?" then I would call myself a 3. I can live with stuff >>I don't read. > >Maybe I am missing your point here in regard to the Chessmaster example. Now >anything regarding chessmaster, or for that matter and other chess program. What >would you consider off-topic. > >So when you say, "would I delete them or inject moderator suggestions that they >be stopped ? No", why would this example even regard even thinking that kind of >action to be taken ? > >To posting endless games between personalities or asking for settings for >chessmaster, I consider this to be perfectly on topic for this forum. > >Maybe you are showing your point to the extreme to put across your view, if that >is the case then I can understand that. > >But just because someone does not like a post or thread regarding a certain >topic, does not make that off-topic. > >To me off-topic is anything not regarding computer chess. So I am just confused >by your point you are trying to put across. Chessmaster is on topic, if not, can >you explain any past posts which would differ in this opinion. No need to dig >any up, just of what you remember would be fine. He is not saying they are off topic. That is to say, he said: "IE I don't like the chessmaster questions/threads. So I don't read them." I think that is plain enough. He is making no claims that such discussions are not topical. Only that they bore him. In other words, he has the position that some topical stuff annoys him to the point that he won't bother reading it. The main objective of the illustration was to show that there is a large body of frequent discussion that he *personally* finds either pointless or boring. Despite this, he said: "Would I delete them or inject moderator suggestions that they be stopped? No." It all boils down to the fact that everyone has different tastes and interests. To each his tastes.
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