Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 07:41:08 05/15/98
(1) Thanks to the CCC management for offering the membership an opportunity to have an influence on the choice of moderator(s) via nomination and voting! (2) Since I, personally, will most likely not recognize the names of any of the people offered as candidates, the only way I could make an intelligent decision is to look at the chess bulletin boards to see if those candidates had ever posted bulletins which I would consider to be objectionable. If they had, then I would vote against them. (3) Unfortunately, people who post to chess bulletin boards sometimes use "names" which are not similar to their real names. In fact, there seems to be no way for anyone to know whether or not one of the CCC moderator candidates ever posted to chess bulletin boards under pseudo-names. In one case, someone called himself "Anonymous" which obviously was not the name on his[her?] birth certificate. Both the person who called himself Anonymous and another who called himself Rolf would be unacceptable to me. But how can I be sure that I do not unknowingly vote for one of them? I also would vote against anyone who has ever debated what I would consider to be an inappropriate issue on the chess bulletin boards and would vote against anyone who had ever used any kind of abusive language or vulgarity. But how can I be sure your candidates qualify????? I know the "names" which appeared on the bulletin boards, but not their real names. (4) To help with this, I suggest that the voting ballot not only give the candidate's real name, but all of the pseudo-names which he/she has used on chess bulletin boards. (5) Otherwise, I do not see how I, or anyone else, could intelligently vote for a moderator.
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