Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 09:18:39 05/16/98
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On May 15, 1998 at 12:16:33, Steven Schwartz wrote: >MODERATOR NOMINEES... >As of this point in time, we have the following >nominees/volunteers for the three new positions >as moderators of the CCC (listed alphabetically).... > >Amir Ban >Karsten Bauermeister >Thorsten Czub >Don Dailey >Dave Gomboc >Bruce Moreland >Keith Ian Price >Christophe Theron >Fernando Villegas > >We will continue to take nominees/volunteers through >Tuesday, May 19th. > >THE VOTE... >If our voting program is ready (and we think it will >be), we shall begin the voting for moderators on Wednesday, >May 20th at noon (New York time). The voting will last until >Wednesday, May 27th at noon (New York time). This will >correspond to the timing of the next polling question(s). > >Right now, we are setting up so that each member will be >given three votes for moderator. Also, we are modifying our >Opinion Poll program so that it can accept multiple choices >by each member and multiple poll questions at one time. Another poster (was it Don Dailey?) suggested "acceptance" voting, i.e. a voter selects all of the people who they would be comfortable having as moderators. The people with the top n acceptance rates (where n is the number of moderators you want!) would become the future moderators. This seemed to be a good system to me. >MY PERSONAL THOUGHTS.... >I would like to see a very short biography on each >nominee - to include: age, occupation (if any), chess >program fathered (if any), country, family, interests, >perhaps even personal thoughts about what types of >posts should be deleted or not deleted. > >-Steve Dave Gomboc I am a professional software developer, living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I'm 23 years old, and a lifetime member of the Chess Federation of Canada. I am on the board of directors for the Alberta Chess Association, I am a co-editor of the ACA's newsletter, and will begin hosting the ACA web site shortly. I have a B.Sc. in Computer Science (convocation is this June, actually). I have been working for eight months on the automated generation of opening repertoires for chess programs, something that will eventually find its way to publication (when I finish :). I will be continuing my studies in AI at the graduate level, probably in January. Moderation style: First I would like to say that in the vast majority of instances, no moderation is required! Moderators should only intrude when there is a need, and that seldom happens (on CCC, at least 8^). Should there be a need, e.g. some comment is especially offensive, I would replace it with "[A moderator has removed a section of the post at this point.]" and let the rest of the article be displayed. Anyone who can post civilly and constructively is welcome to post, anyone who cannot will still be able to post. Someone in the latter group might find the comment in square brackets above appear more in their messages than in those of others, that's about all. Dave Gomboc
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