Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 23:10:17 12/02/00
I'm confused about the political posts we've had here. We had Thorsten talking about something to do with the US election, and he was told to stop talking about it, either because he didn't know what he was talking about, or because it was so evidently off-topic, either moderator explanation works fine here. Then we have someone else start a post about the US election, and moderation says fine, this is a fine topic as long as it doesn't get out of control. Then we have another moderator saying, no, this is not a good topic. So now we have an ongoing thread about the US election, with moderators taking part in the thread, and various complaints about topicality scattered throughout the board. We have people wondering why they have to see posts on topics related to "pregnant chad", while moderation gets on someone else for discussing a lawsuit involving several major computer chess figures. And there is no sign of Thorsten, who I believe was threatened with something nasty if he kept bringing up the election himself. This seems inconsistent. Perhaps we can agree that the following topics have nothing to do with computer chess, and that threads dealing specifically with these topics are not allowed: 1) The recent US presidential election. 2) The US president or lack thereof. 3) The US electoral college and other constitutional issues. Does this sound like a bad idea? bruce
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