Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:32:21 04/14/01
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On April 13, 2001 at 22:12:43, Eelco de Groot wrote: > > >While I can't agree with most of what Paul Doire had to say in the "courtesy >threads" there is one thing with which I do agree and that is that we dinosaurs >here sometimes tend to be a little wary of new names. I am guilty of this myself >and I apologize to all real new members. > >There has been misuse by people who thought it would be loads of fun to sign up >with lots of different names and then hold animated dicussions with oneself. >Very nice as long as everybody knows what is going on but there actually are >members here who come just to read about computer chess programming and do not >read 100% of all posts. How can they know who is real? I sure can't! This group is too busy to be killed by a whacko. If a whacko starts a campaign here, it's drowned out by all the Chessmaster posts, tournament result posts, posts asking about hash tables (not the kind they have in Amsterdam), and speculation about which is the strongest pogram. If you see a post from someone who doesn't appear to be who they say they are, do the following: 1) Highlight the URL in your browser's "address" window. 2) Go back to the main index page. 3) Click the "Moderator e-mail" link. 4) Paste the link, write a complaint, and send it. 5) Wait patiently. Please do not do the following: 1) Argue pointlessly with the guy. 2) Accuse him of being someone else. 3) Personally attack him. 4) Shriek about how the moderators suck because they won't delete his post. 5) Start a new thread complaining vaguely about the guy. Malevolent people want a reaction, and by doing any of the above, you are giving him what he wants. You are also making the thread larger and therefore more noticeable. And finally, by doing any of the above you are giving the moderators a headache by causing them to have to figure out how to explain to the whacko that he's the one in trouble, when someone *else* called *him* something nasty. You know all this, but if someone else reads this and behaves less stupidly as a result, the post was worth it. bruce
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