Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:34:37 10/09/00
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On October 09, 2000 at 09:23:58, Albert Silver wrote: >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 Yes. although I think his point is that we really _can't_ impose a ban on a thread. There are two types of moderated forums. Most require approval before a post can be seen by others. That is a big burden on moderators. The alternative is retroactive moderation as we have here. The problem is that the thread is killed before one of the combatants gets the last word... For those that think moderation isn't needed, I can only suggest going to rec.games.chess.computer. That is what CCC will look like without moderators. If _that_ is "working" then I am a prince. But for the record, I am _not_ any sort of royalty. :)
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