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Subject: Re: Moderation: Political posts

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 00:18:43 12/06/00

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On December 05, 2000 at 14:06:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>I don't think announcements of a new program have _ever_ caused any moderator
>action, past or present.  But machine prices?  disk drive prices?  memory
>prices?  MB prices?  CDrom prices?  DVD writer prices?  CPU prices?  Fan prices?
>compiler prices?  windows ME prices?  Linux distribution prices?  *Office
>prices?  It gets further and further from computer chess, but with a definite
>"link".

Someone announced a chess database thing, and included a price and a web site,
and a moderator went nuts.  I think it was KarinsDad.  He claimed that any ad
met the "flagrant commercial exhortation" test.

It's a continuum issue, obviously.  0 is defined as wrong and 10 is defined as
right, 1 is almost certainly wrong, and 9 is almost certainly right, but
somewhere between 4 and 6 it becomes a matter of opinion as to whether it is
wrong or right.

bruce




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