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Subject: Moderation this forum is not a zero-sum game

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 08:44:18 09/08/00

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On September 07, 2000 at 12:31:10, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On September 07, 2000 at 12:15:08, Peter Davison wrote:
>
>>The forum referred to _is_ the people. It is not a forum, it is a club.
>>Different.
>
>Correct, but implied in my message.
>
>>If you said the people were inclined already to be disinterested in everything
>>unless there was something to be gained, that the 'gain' took the form of
>>positive advantage for oneself, or negative disadvantage for the 'opponent', in
>>classical chess zero-sum style, then I would agree with you.
>
>That was what I was trying to say in not so many words.
>
>>If you see this, then why are you here?
>
>For the same reasons as you are, I imagine. Observing (and laughing).
>
>Mogens.

I hope that I know the both of you just a little bit better than that you both
didn't really mean to sound so cynical, shallow and negative about the people
here, their intentions and their capacity for independant thought. If not then
as just an average CCC-member I tend to feel insulted by the tenor of this
sub-thread.

Thank you very much,
Eelco



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