Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 13:28:32 06/16/98
Hi all: If moderation is suddenly the issue, let me say that hints of unbelievable arrogance, very far of a healthy moderate attitude, has been seen here in the last week from people that was very loud to ask punishment or warnings against posters that once or twice wrote here something different to chess computers and/or with one or two "dirty" words. Some of these people seems to lose his temper and moderation very soon and so his answers to posts about possible or maybe impossible different methods to program chess programs are plenty with comtempt toward the poster. The argument they use, if that name can be given to that stuff, is this: “you have not showed a program with your ideas, you are not a programmer, you have nothing concrete to show" and/or they say "we, on the contrary, we are engineers, we know what we do....” Please... I suppose that all here has had enough time in his lives to read something different from the curtrent stuff of his professional engagement, something, perhaps, about how science is made along the time, something of the history of inventions. We all should remember how obstinate professional performers tends to be in anything they perform, how much trapped in his own practices they tends to be sometimes, how blind to new ideas, how arrogant, how full of pride and narrowness of mind they becomes many times and how that stupid dreamer, that almost non human being that is not specialist has been capable, anyway, of seeing things the great men did not see. A minimum of common sense and intelligent modesty should learn that even if 9 times of ten laymen commit mistakes, there is always the chance one of them will bang into a new, good idea. An intelligent pro always lesson what is said to him because you never know whether that obscure guy will have a brilliant idea, even if not fully formulated. But beside all that, there is an issue of civility and good manners. The essence of this site is to put together people of different professions and lives, only with chess computer interest in common. So, nobody should try to put himself over nobody on the ground of his speciality or the studies he performed. If anybody has a lot more to say, then just must say it and not bark out with unsupportable arrogance about how much he could say. In this sense, always showing patience and spirit, I want to salute the healthy attitude of Don Daily, a professional programmer ever ready to polite and learned answers. At the very least he hide his feelings, if he have them, -I don't bellieve it- as any civilized person do. To other not so refined and polite people I would say that not because Thorsten is not a programmer - I am not also, 90% here are not- he should, then, from now on, keep silence lessoning the Gods. Or will be a rule that anybody here should advertise his own professional tittles before posting, in order to stop any answer as unlearned? Should I ask to shut the mouse to all of you each time a general sociological issue appear because I am sociologist and you are not? Should I say if ever anyone post an opinion about political issues "Hey, show first your tittles, your papers, your Phd in sociology, your research and if you have nothing of the sort you have no right to talk about this..." Is this the Olimpo? Did I miss something when I bought the ticket? Regards Fernando
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