Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 21:14:21 12/04/00
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On December 04, 2000 at 23:48:39, Chessfun wrote: >On December 04, 2000 at 23:10:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>It can't be consistent unless it is all or none. And _that_ seems to be >>unacceptable. Otherwise it is subjective and inconsistent. > >The natural problem with subjective is that that will be different naturally >from person to person and moderator to moderator. The recent examples of the >CM8K can be got at best buy for $15.00 and then the computer threads in Taiwan >were IMO based on the moderators posted positions prior to election correct. > >The decision to ignore the CM8K thread or maybe the message within wasn't seen, >and delete the computer thread which clearly indicated in it's title the >subject, IMO was consistant with that policy. As the computer post appeared >flagrant. I think that Bob thought that the Taiwanese guy was selling hardware. I think the Taiwanese guy was reporting on a deal he found. I can understand why Bob would have reacted like that if he thought the guy was selling hardware. I don't know if he would have reacted like that if the guy was reporting a deal he found, but I hope not. I'm interested in this stuff because this is all about how much commercial content we will tolerate here. Some people have taken the charter phrase "flagrant commecial exhortations" to mean any mention of a product for sale. That is not how it was intended by the people who adopted the charter. I think the intent was to make sure the place didn't get jammed full of hard-sell ads. Personally, I don't think that a post offering a chess computer for sale, or a posted link to an eBay auction, or a new commercial software announcement, or a mention that you can get CM8K for cheap at some store, is prohibited by the charter. I would be very concerned about the case where someone posted such stuff on a regular and frequent basis though bruce
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