Author: Graham Laight
Date: 03:39:47 05/07/98
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My suggestion is that Bruce becomes a CCC moderator, and be given a free hand to remove CW postings at will! On May 07, 1998 at 04:58:13, Bruce Moreland wrote: >Please pardon the extremely serious nature of this response, but this >topic matters to me, a great deal. > >There are plenty of arguments for telling Chris that if he wants to >register another account here, he won't be prevented from doing this, >but the entertainment value of caustic posts is an extremely poor >reason. > >I think that it is important for people to consider what kind of group >they want this to be. > >There are a lot of kinds of information we can exchange here. We can >talk about chess program technical issues, we can talk about how this or >that program fared against this or that opponent, we can talk about >games, whatever. > >We will probably also end up talking about politics, and this is going >to cause arguments, which might become pretty heated. > >There is a lot to dislike about this sort of discussion, but sometimes >some good comes out of them, so it should be OK to have this sort of >discussion. > >This kind of thing is the reason freedom of speech was invented. > >But there are other kinds of interchange that I have endured in the >past, and that I would really really like to avoid having to endure in >the future. > >For instance, malicious personal attacks. This may not bother some of >you who are reading these attacks, but as someone who has been the >target, it is not fun. > >It is also not fun for me to see people I know dragged through the mud >unfairly. > >So if the kind of group people want this to be is one where it is OK to >insult people as long as it is done in interesting fashion, then count >me out. I am not interested in being attacked, or watching my friends >be attacked, or watching people who are just simply innocent being >attacked, in order to make entertainment for others. > >I've spent a lot of time arguing with Chris about this or that. I have >come to the conclusion that I dislike him, a lot. > >I am not going to be go through months of arguing with this guy again. >Life is too short for this, I have better things to do, the arguments >are always extremely unproductive. > >So if Chris comes back and starts doing his deal again, look for a >brief, but extremely sharp, response from me, and then one of us will be >gone for good, I don't particularly care who. > >bruce
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