Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 04:19:30 10/09/00
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On October 08, 2000 at 22:47:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 08, 2000 at 15:24:05, Eelco de Groot wrote: > >>I also would like to ask the moderators to show some restraint in deleting posts >>or people from this forum for the time being. > > >Note that the _only_ posts deleted in the past week were the huge free-for-all >that everyone saw. We have _not_ deleted any "chessmaster" tournament posts. >We have not threatened to do so. We have not threatened _any_ action toward >anybody posting these tournaments. > >The _only_ thing that has transpired relative to these posts is that I have >requested that the subject be more accurate, rather than sensational, so that >people can decide whether they want to read them or not basedon the accurate >subject line, rather than being based on a misleading subject line. I only >made this request after _three_ different members grumbled both here and via >moderator email. Had I not been a moderator, I would have grumbled also about >the "world cup" topic. > >So there has been nothing deleted except for the chessbits issue. It would >seem that posts have been disappearing right and left. But that simply is >not what has happened. The chessbits stuff was deleted after many email >complaints to the moderators popped in. And after the three of us discussed >it at length and tried the "please stop" approach first. > >I deleted at least 5 of my own posts when I removed the thread. Didn't bother >me a bit as the thread was garbage in the first place. > > I can certainly understand that it must have been a difficult decision to delete that thread. In the UBB-type of bulletin boards there is the option for a moderator to simply declare a subject closed and not accept any new replies. As I understand it this is the effect that you were trying to achieve. I think it would be nice if the CCC had a similar moderator option, whereby if you asked for the "reply to a message" box you entered a page saying something like: "This subject matter is closed by moderator decision. No new entries in this part of the thread are accepted. Thanks for your understanding. The moderator team. The moderators can be reached through their e-mail address at the bottom of the page." In this case I think that would have been a much more elegant solution but unfortunately that is not an option available to you at the moment. I agree just about everybody had had a change to have their say at that point and for the moment the case would not be helped much by further public discussion anyway. You can discuss about whether some of the accusations should have been moderated but I don't think it was a useless thread. The underlying conflict between ChessBits and Millennium is real enough. I was hoping it wouldn't have to come to a court case. Anyway, that is what I had to say about this at the moment. Thanks for taking the time to reply, Robert. Eelco > >>And I would like to ask Daniel to >>please continue his basement tournaments and if he finds something interesting >>post it. I hope he can see some humour too in the gigantic thread and initial >>misunderstandings following his rather innocent Joel Benjamin - Yasser Seirawan >>post. Much ado about nothing! For the people who complained, the best way to >>raise the level of this forum is of course to post something that you think >>might be of more interest to the readers. >> >>In light of all the recent commotion I was hoping we could maybe let this "Bob's >>forum"-subject too give it the rest of its 36 hours before it goes quietly into >>the archives anyway? I don't see these posts as meant to be entirely >>unconstructive. But anything new on the Kramnik - Kasparov match? Just my >>personal opinion of course. >> >>Okay, I'll shut up now. Where's the soap? >> >>Eelco
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