Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 08:35:31 03/24/01
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On March 23, 2001 at 23:13:28, Chessfun wrote: > >While this may be a little late since over 600 votes have been cast. >I myself have not voted yet and I am interested in knowing the moderator >candidates views on the following questions. > >1) Would you as a candidate propose to ICD to implement any of the following; > If not why? >a. Stopping messages from certain domain names. If you are asking whether "free mail" accounts should be banned, I think not. There are too many anonymous email things out there, so all that happens is that a troublemaker has some added fun trying to find one that we haven't thought of, while those who are not troublemakers are inconvenienced. If someone wants to cause trouble, they can just get an AOL account, which provides you with more than one "screen name", as far as I know. We can't ban AOL. The bottom line is that if someone wants to pee in our pond, there's not a lot that can be done about it before they start peeing. >b. Stopping messages from known bad user IP addresses. This is being done. >c. Stopping messages with certain keywords in the Subject. This would be a waste of Tim's time. Anyone who wants to cause trouble can evade any protection like this that you can design. Anyone who wants to get banned can do it without using a single offensive term. Anyone who wants to can create an image that's a lot grosser than you get from a cuss word or two, without using any cuss words. There are also many other languages than English, and use of these language is not banned here. I don't think that the occasional cuss word in a message body causes enough trouble here that we need to care. People have been using vulgarity now and then here since the place was founded. I, for one, would not like to have the job of compiling a worldwide offensive term list in order to use it to filter out posts that are otherwise perfectly reasonable. I think this place would be very sour if we implement a standard of puritanism. >d. Stopping messages from certain keywords in the Subject body. See above. >e. Consider the use of a software program to achieve any of the above. See above. >f. Online archives for member access. If you are talking about censoring the archive, see above, but I'm not sure if that is your question here. I think that online archives for anyone's access are a good thing. Personally, I think that anyone should be able to *read* CCC without signing up at all, including banned people. >2) Would you as a candidate define what you think can be done at CCC > to improve it for the use of all members. And what items you would > again actively promote through ICD to have installed and/or implemented. > Such as reducing the current noise ratio. The problem with this question is that it's like asking a cop what he/she thinks should be done about the local fire service. Regarding feature changes, a moderator is just like anyone else. They express an idea to Tim/Steve, Tim/Steve decide whether they want to do it, and if so Steve pays for it, and Tim does it. So if for instance I think that a searchable archive is a good idea, my being a moderator or not makes no difference. I can't decide it's going to happen, and once it's decided that it's going to happen, I can't write the feature. If someone who is not a moderator thinks up a feature, and tells Tim/Steve, and they do the feature, there is a good chance that the first the moderators will hear about it is a post from Tim, which is fine. All moderators can do is delete posts, recommend deletion of accounts, and use a little authority when writing posts and sending email. I think CCC is fine the way it is. I like having a lot of posts. Most of them aren't interesting to me, but I think that we have a healthy community here. I wish people would use the general chess forum for general chess stuff, but that hasn't taken off the way the computer side has, so I can see why people are reluctant to use it. bruce > > >To any that reply, thank you in advance. > >Sarah.
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