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Subject: Re: Moderation issue: Seirawan lost to Benjamin, loses lead with ...

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 22:53:27 10/09/00

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On October 09, 2000 at 22:50:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 09, 2000 at 14:01:32, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>On October 09, 2000 at 10:37:14, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On October 09, 2000 at 03:28:35, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 08, 2000 at 22:57:58, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>There was absolute no need for the moderators to interfere. Remember the
>>>>>>occasion when you was subject to moderation? How did it feel? That's what
>>>>>>you are doing each time you interfere so it better should be big when you
>>>>>>decide to speak as a moderator using your power, because that is the
>>>>>>position you have as an elected moderator.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>NOBODY interfered.
>>>>
>>>>Yes you did.
>>>>
>>>>When I asked you the question if you were talking as CCC member or
>>>>as CCC moderator you said the latter.
>>>>
>>>>Ed
>>>
>>>
>>>Please.  It seems definitions are very _loose_ today.  Go look up "interfere"
>>>and then tell me how I interefered in any of the chessmaster threads, in any
>>>way or fashion.  I _asked_ the poster to choose more suitable subject lines.
>>>I didn't prevent him from posting _anything_.  I didn't remove _anything_.
>>>I didn't threaten to remove _anything_.  I didn't threaten any kind of action
>>>at _all_.
>>
>>
>>>So exactly how did I interfere?
>>
>>
>>BH wrote:
>>>>>and when the threads here also have complaints about the subjects.  I don't
>>>>>mind the chessmaster threads, as I said during moderator elections.  But I
>>>>>don't like "world cup underway".  A person can't hold a "world cup" event.
>>
>>ES:
>>>>Fine with me as long as you say that as a CCC member.
>>
>>BH:
>>>I believe that this falls under the moderator job description.
>>
>>
>>Here for instance you admitted that your criticism to a header description
>>was done in the role as moderator and not as being a CCC member. It is a
>>warning to all CCC members.
>>
>>Do we need this? I don't think so. Which is and was my whole and only point.
>>
>>Ed


>Why would it matter whether it was done as a member, a moderator, or by the
>president of the United States?

That we have discussed in length by now. Time to stop.


>Did you go to school?
>
>College?
>
>If you did, how on earth did you respond when a teacher criticized your writing
>style and suggested you do some things differently?  That's all this was.

A teacher teaches children.

Ed



>A
>critical remark about the subject not agreeing with the body of the post.  Any
>writing teacher would complain if the title of a paper had _nothing_ to do with
>the content.  Or if the title was greatly misleading...
>
>I didn't even threaten to  "flunk" him.  :)  Just asked him to be more
>reasonable in choosing the subject.
>
>That certainly fits within the definition of "moderator".  Again from my
>Webster's...



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