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

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 09:56:36 10/10/00

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On October 10, 2000 at 09:36:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 10, 2000 at 01:53:27, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>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
>>
>>
>
>Can we stop with the one-liners that have no thought behind them?

Another moderator warning?

My one-liner contained a serious hint and I think you are clever
enough to get the point.

Ed



>I am
>teaching a class right now where 1/2 of the students are > 30 years old.  Are
>_they_ children?  I distinctly said "college".  IE beyond grade 12.  I often
>have one or two students in class that are _older_ than I am, this being a
>graduate/Ph.D. program as well as an undergraduate program.
>
>BTW, I don't call _anyone_ 19 years old or more a "child".  They are "adults".
>Unless we are sending children off to fight wars.  And letting children vote.
>
>
>
>>
>>>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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