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Subject: Re: There are no rules...

Author: Chessfun

Date: 18:20:20 11/26/00

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On November 26, 2000 at 18:00:23, Severi Salminen wrote:

>On November 26, 2000 at 17:38:47, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On November 26, 2000 at 17:35:28, Severi Salminen wrote:
>>
>>>>>Nice job. I'll copy it and have a look at it.
>>>>>I'm still trying to get CM8k to play via autoplayer as yet no luck.
>>>>>Thanks for posting it and please post the other games.
>>>>>
>>>>>Sarah.
>>>>
>>>>Oppss what to do with the other games....post on this thread?, new heading?
>>>>or new thread?.....easy check our "netiquette" that'll tell us the answer !!
>>>>
>>>>Sarah.
>>>
>>>Well, it seems that you are not able to understand my point about the need of an
>>>etiquette here in CCC. Well, at least I tried...not hard enough...
>>>
>>>Severi
>>
>>
>>No I understand your point.
>>But you don't understand that some people are just interested in posting
>>their own things, they are not interested in following threads or following
>>posting rules and regulations. In the case I cite above how is Daniel to know
>>what to do? he is simply interested in playing his game, posting it and seeing
>>what people think of it.
>>
>>Sarah.
>
>First of all Daniel has not done anything wrong, I just adviced him to post
>messages belonging to the same thread to the same thread (I love english!). As
>we don't have an etiquette the users must give advice - it is called helping and
>I wanted to give advice to Daniel. Nothing more nothing less.


Then you should have skipped the last sentence. And maybe upon reading it
we could have all appreciated your concern.


>Moderated forums are _not_ for people "just interested in posting
>their own things" or people "not interested in following posting rules and
>regulations". And I wouldn't say that Daniel belongs to that group. Rules are
>not made to limit the freedom but to make things pleasant for everybody. An
>etiquette would complement the rules (if everybody read them). I will definitely
>give suggestions to an etiquette if Mr. Schwartz (sorry if I mispelled) or who
>ever decides these things wanted CCC to have one. An etiquette would give ideas
>on what to write to the subject line, when to start a new thread and so on.
>These are not at all clear things to everyone - as we have seen many, many times
>during past months and years.


IMO an unnecessary burden to place on posters.

Sarah.



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