Author: Danniel Corbit
Date: 00:49:26 09/18/98
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On September 18, 1998 at 01:40:31, Keith Ian Price wrote: [snip] >I don't see any redeeming value. I have a suggestion. When you have decided to >suspend someone, perhaps you can just change the reaction to their password from >blocking them entrance to automatically depositing them in Sean's Alternative >CCC. Why compound the punishment? ;-) Seriously, if they read r.g.c.c they already know all about it. Furthermore, they are free to post opinions on unmoderated newsgroups, to continue to expand killfile entries the world over. >This will show your support of alternative, free-wheeling computer chess >discussion; help Sean attract valuable candidates for his discussion groups; and >show that you are not interested in killing free speech, just directing it to a >forum where it will receive the appreciation it deserves. Just a suggestion. >What do you think? Killing free speach? Whatever happened to political correctness? I thought that awful stuff died a long time ago. ;-) You have to be a real whinging twit or a total mental case to get banned from here. I have concluded this because I have not been banned and I am both abrasive and a flaming idiot at times. Therefore, to get the boot, you have to really be an unrepentant, repeating pain in the posterior. Wherever they go, they will drag down and ruin, and never add anything of value, unless they recover from their stupor. Not to say that people never recover. I hope they do. Do you imagine that discipline is bad? I tell you that the man who fails to discipline his son is hating his child and is destroying him. Now, a newsgroup cannot be a father, despite the obvious and desperate need by some for such. But it can administer discipline. These persons will continue to post in international forums. It seems to me that some even get some sick narcissistic pleasure from seeing their name, no matter how negative the context. Go read them if you like. I read the posts of some who are pretty off the wall. I really do think that some may recover from their temporary malise. Others, I simply put in my killfile. After 6 months or so, I may experiment and take them out. Of course, from my AOL account, there is no killfile, so I sometimes accidentally read the strange and perverse rantings of lunatics. Some people think that moderation is bad. Fine. Go away then, and you won't have to suffer it. We can play lots of antics with semantics. Just by our choice of words, we can change the way things sound -- even the intent of our hearts and minds. Take the fiery abortion debate. "I'm pro-life!" "I'm pro-choice!" You mean you are not for life!? You mean you are not for a person's right to choose!? You see, by choosing the right words, we can make anything seem different. Do you want to hear a giant swell of profanity? How about personal, libelous slander against *you*? Well, stopping those things is *censorship* -- which is -- in my view -- a good thing. That is what moderated groups are all about. It is actually very difficult for a moderated group to remain lively. In that regard I give the moderaters of this group full credit. And I do trust their judgement.
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