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Subject: Re: Time to pick new moderators. You might want to start nominations

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 20:27:34 08/30/01

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On August 29, 2001 at 19:18:28, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 29, 2001 at 18:32:06, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>Please don't trivialize this.
>
>Well I have been thinking about it.
>
>It appears to me that being a moderator in this forum is
>as much a burden as it is an honour. Most people seem to
>prefer not to have to do it.

It's much more a burden than an honour, but I think it's worthwhile doing...
once. :-)

>Additionally, the quality of the moderators has a quite
>low effect on the overall S/N ratio in this group. We
>have an excellent set of moderators now and still the
>discussions seem to get no further than GM strength,
>Deep Blue sucks/rules, testposition, trolls, very knowledged
>people insulting each other and a lot what I would describe
>as 'propaganda'.
>
>For some reason the number of actual interesting technical
>discussions (DB yadda yadda doesn't count) is always very
>low. Perhaps I am in the wrong group for this, I don't know.

It's low, but at least it's non-zero, an improvement over "just before CCC".

>What I do see here is that the actual level of discussion
>is often no better than rgcc. Which sortof defeats the
>purpose of this group.
>
>So, perhaps it's better to let the people who love their
>work get back to actually chessprogramming and let the
>rest flame, insult and troll at will.
>
>Perhaps it would be an improvement even.

Forget it!  No way.

Dave



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