Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:12:51 10/06/00
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On October 06, 2000 at 13:32:17, Peter Davison wrote: >On October 06, 2000 at 11:46:04, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>On October 06, 2000 at 07:07:23, Peter Davison wrote: >> >>>What has happened here by now is that such a debate, despite the promises and >>>agreements of 1997, could never happen. It would, like Shredder-Marcus K. be >>>thread-deleted. As Jeroen says "It's well known we can't discuss anything worse >>>here than "is Fritz 6b the strongest ever and if yes why not"." >> >>Agreed. >> >>Now there is an issue going on to ban the CM personalities from >>this forum. > >This is a problem of there being a few well-informed experts (I won't make any >jokes about the ill-infornmed experts) who had a forum, but then loads of Joe >Public started turning up. Bruce's "pesky-end-users syndrome". > >He has a point, doesn't he? > >> >>It's already more or less accepted that user questions (my Pc >>running xxx crashes etc.) are not so welcome here. >> >>There was no need to delete the Shredder-Marcus K. issue. The issue >>already died by itself. That's the difference between CCC and the >>former rcgg times. Any quarrel dies here by itself. No moderation >>needed, much more natural as in real life. > >Yes, you have long been a proponent of allowing stuff to burn itself out. I believe I (and the other moderators) also tried to allow the thing to die of its own stupidity. It didn't. It kept going, and going, just like that damned pink rabbit with a base drum. And I am sure it would have continued to go and go, tit for tat, until something happened. It did, and it has stopped. It should have started _and_ stayed in private email.
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