Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 07:58:45 05/18/98
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Ok - my name is Thorsten Czub, I am 31. Computerchess is my hobby. I am doing computerchess for a while. Therefore the possibilities of sharing and enjoying it with friends are numerous. This place is ONE example how to share "chess-shit" (as Bob's wife said) with other people. I don't like to censor or shout at people. After all the "experience" I had with NO moderation in rgcc, i have found out that sometimes one would have to delete posts with insulting stuff into it. I would have deleted some of my posts too. Since some of them were heated and offending. Normally i should (after a night sleep or even earlier) apologize when I have done something wrong. E.g. I thought (I was mistaken) Djorde Vidanovic is RT. This was a mistake. I was so involved in finding out which emails or posts are faked that i thought: this one could be a faked one too. An apology does not excuse anything. But it helps mainly myself to sleep better the next nights. I would like to see the people here in CCC discuss and talk without attacking each other for days or weeks. Sometimes I fail to do this myself, since some topics are very important to me (ideals, ethics, fair-competition, new ideas in computerchess, No-monopolism). I think nothing (especially no IDEA) is so important that it should be more valueable than human-beeings, friends and human-rights. Also no rule or no law should be that GENERAL that it will be misused against people. Rules are FOR people and not against them. A principle shall not be more important than wishes of other people. Normally i differenciate between peoples actions, and people themselves. I could HATE somebodies IDEAS or OUTPUT about a topic, but I would go eat with him, or drink a beer. Or be together with him in a community. I would not call him my friend, but I would let him live his own life. On the other hand I would not invite him at my home or lend him the key of my car. Or allow him to use my PC. Nobody should ever be thrown-out or censored. Anybody needs a second chance or more chances. But when somebody fails all chances, the group has to react and the moderator has to do something. Since we are talking about computerchess and not about IMPORTANT stuff, it should then be allowed to send this guy a yellow-card. And if he does not behave any better = on-topic and not insulting, he should get a red card. It is difficult for me to stay on topic since i do mainly think with the right-brain-part. And this halve is associative and connects all kind of "same-levelled topics together". It works different than the left brain-halve. But who knows what is better. Hip or squared, left or right-brain-halve, chess has the same rules. And Internet is the right way and the right place to communicate. Never ever was this possible, that the people joining one hobby could meet each other without paying too much, on a common place, and chat. We should not let this destroy by people who have all kind of personal problems or want to be "famous" by attacking other people. The best "moderators" are friends anyway ! And the best experience is when "enemies" become friends after a heavy discussion and the reevaluation of your own point of views. Thanks.
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