Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:10:02 03/21/98
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On March 21, 1998 at 15:12:08, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>Hi steve again:
>As I said before, I am against the idea to give silent members of CCC
>any kind of power to determinate directly or throught other ways the
>shape of this site. My argument was and is that the real member is, by
>definition, in this kind of chat site, the guy who chat and nobody else.
>Nevertheless, that does not means I am against to know what they think.
>I myself I am partly one of those silent member as much as my
>contributions are scarce and not specially important, so I am not
>talking from a proud tower. I just believe that anyone must know what he
>can give and how much he is or not important in the different areas of
>behaviour we meet each day. I would be ashamed to be given a share of
>power in the life of, let us say, a club of rocket cientist just because
>I am there looking at it and "democracy" is a sacred word. I am afraid
>that on the long run the numerical weight of opinion or desires of just
>passing people ends by giving thoughts to the people -you, steve- that
>finally handle this site. CCC is becoming clearly a somewhat techie
>oriented place and so must be as much as programmers engage in it and
>for us, no programmers, the benefit is to learn something new and even
>do a question here and there, BUT NOT to have a hold on this jus
>becauses wer are a far greater lot of people. Maybe many readers will
>ask more simpler explanations about chess programming or even to be
>explained the ABC of all this and for what purpose? I am here precisely
>to learn what I cannot do in RGCC or else. Abd I want that to be kept.
>Fernando
It would be good to have a voting system. Maybe this would avoid the
huge number of silly empty content posts we have seen about Fritz5.
Christophe
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