Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:31:50 12/05/00
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On December 05, 2000 at 00:53:27, Michael Cummings wrote: >On December 04, 2000 at 23:15:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 04, 2000 at 08:52:12, Thorsten Czub wrote: >> >> >> >>Here is a good case in point. obviously 100% off-topic. Nothing to do >>with computer chess. not one suggestion to delete it. I have no problem >>with such posts. But it would seem that some do. And some don't. How is >>this different from the constitution discussion? From the legal discussion? >>etc? >> >> >>Pardon me while I go take something for this headache. Caused by trying to >>figure out just what "standard" everyone wants to see... > >I think this is fine, its a bit of harmless fun in what looks like to be a >heated discussion that pops up amoung the programmers every now and then. > >Its not like this was the start of a thread, just a bit of harmless fun in the >middle of one. > >If he had started a new thread with this topic then I would have given it the >flick. To me their is a difference as to when and how a post is posted as to >what effect it has. > >If you, me and the others had not commented on your post on how you feel this >should affect your moderation of posts, then I think there would of not been one >reply to his post. > >Delete the new posts that start of as being really off topic, but keep the ones >like his that are just a bit of harmless fun in the middle of one. The problem is that if I graded exams/projects that subjectively, I would not have a single student signing up for courses I teach. And justifiably so. As I recall, the US Constitution was a sub-thread. If it wasn't, it could have been. Does it make sense to chop it as a thread, keep it as a sub-thread?
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