Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:23:58 10/09/00
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On October 09, 2000 at 07:19:30, Eelco de Groot wrote:
>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.
In a sense, he did try this:
http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?131562
http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?131394
I didn't think it would help much, but a request to discontinue the subject WAS
made all the same.
Albert
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