Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 04:13:49 09/09/00
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On September 09, 2000 at 06:17:37, Peter Davison wrote: >On September 08, 2000 at 18:46:18, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>On September 08, 2000 at 17:55:59, Eelco de Groot wrote: >> >>>You are still here then! I'm glad about that. I only recently found out in >>>Mogens' excellent forum at his http://home1.stofanet.dk/Moq/ that Thorsten was >>>suspended from here months ago. I'm sure it was not entirely without some >>>provocation on Thorsten's part but I can't remember there having been any notice >>>about his suspension. At least the last time the author of CSTal was suspended - >>>at least the last time that I know of.. - Andrew Williams told us why. >>>Provocative as he can be I would like to see Thorsten come back sometime. By the >>>way I actually thought for a while Martin Hasse was Thorsten but Chessfun seemed >>>to know better. These aliases *can* be rather confusing, you know. I wish we >>>could do without them entirely. Don't you agree? >> >>You could try comparing the e-mail of say Christian Pike here and the one for >>Thorsten Czub at my forum and look for similarities. When that is said, I hope >>they would consider lifting the suspension, > >AFAIK Thorsten has been banned so many times now (three or more?) for nothing >more than having strong opinions and holding to them. Worse, the first ban on >Thorsten looked more like an ambush on him than anything else. > >Thorsten's initial reaction to his ban was to say ok, I'll be back in a few >months. But, gradually, as the ban count mounted, his attitude changed away from >feeling cooperative here. I think now he just takes the view that the 'powers >that be' here are just plain stupid. > >And why 'lift the suspension'? You know perfectly well that if he returned it >would only be a matter of time before the calls to ban him (whoever and wherever >they come from) would start again. He'ld be banned aagin. > >Its a systemic problem. Something is wrong with this place. Thorsten is one of >the stars of computer chess. Your group keeps throwing him off. Ban those with >strong opinions and what do you get? A place with no opinions. Or a place with >one opinion. Stupid. > > > > >>if there really is one, so that all >>this alias business could be reduced, at least to a certain extent. I don't see >>the point as it's easy to circumvent with very little ingenuity. So what if >>someone wants to ramble about pawns, beans, prawns or zero-sum games. There's no >>obligation to read every post. >> >>Mogens. There is always a thin red line marking the boundary between strong opinions and obsessive emotions and/or intolerance of certain programs or people. I believe that Thorsten has crossed that line lots of times. To have the mind excessively preoccupied with a single emotion or topic, the way Thorsten's mind seems to be working, is difficult to accomodate in a forum of this type. I do hope that you too will realise the existence of this thin red line that enables a decent exchange of ideas. *** Djordje
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