Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 16:46:00 08/02/01
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On August 02, 2001 at 14:23:36, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On August 02, 2001 at 11:45:14, Wayne Lowrance wrote: > >>Bruce, I do not understand why you would come close to delete this post and let >>all of the bad language and profanity go on here from time to time. I have a >>Grandson who is very interested in chess and the programs. I would give him this >>forum except for the language. >>I agree with you that this post should have been deleted. It is deflamatory. >>Wayne > >This place was founded by people who were fed up with internet lunatics. I >don't know if you've ever dealt with an internet lunatic, but it is very >difficult. > >There was a guy on a usenet group (not the chess group), who liked to >impersonate people. You'd write a post that this guy didn't like, and the next >day there'd be something in there, apparently from you, explaining how you'd >like to kill some Jews or molest a kid. > >Once when the guy did this to me, I received a threat from another poster who >declared that I didn't deserve to live. The guy also wrote a post ostensibly >from me where "I" tried to hire someone to kill him. > >I ended up calling the police and FBI a few times, and once I had a cop in my >house while I printed out a bunch of stuff for him. I also did the lawyer thing >for a while. > >The situation in the computer chess usenet group was never this bad (for me), >but it was bad enough that we migrated here. This place exists primarily in >order to provide members recourse against internet lunatics. If someone calls >you nasty names here, to the point where you'd ordinarily start pestering the >guy's ISP and running up against that brick wall, you can send an email to a >moderator and we'll get rid of the idiot. Maybe not at the point where you are >first bothered by him, but we don't allow stalkers here and eventually they go >bye bye. > >Notice that I've said nothing about profanity. This place wasn't founded to get >rid of profanity. There is nothing in the charter about profanity. I believe >that the founders considered this, and we decided that we didn't care to make a >"no profanity" rule. > >Personally, I think that that there wouldn't be much here for kids, anyway. > >If a moderator tries to put severe limits on profanity, I think that a lot of >people who read the group will get pretty upset, because this isn't covered by >the charter, and because it will lead to a big nationalistic discussion between >people who are in a place where profanity is supposedly welcomed in ordinary >conversation between people of all ages and genders, and others who do not want >to see it. > >However, any moderator candidate is welcome to run on such a platform, and if >the "no profanity" faction is strong enough we might see a ban on it. I assume >that it's also possible for the membership to "guide" the moderators by having a >poll on the topic or something. If a majority don't want it here, I wouldn't >have a problem enforcing a "no profanity" rule. > >When the heck is this term up, by the way? Isn't it about time that someone >else does this job? > >bruce Thank you, Wayne
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