Author: Hans Christian Lykke
Date: 10:49:49 09/21/98
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On September 21, 1998 at 12:56:57, Bruce Moreland wrote: >This weekend we voted to suspend Thorsten's CCC account privilege. > >The reason we did this is that he has been posting a lot of nasty little attacks >on people, in some cases completely superfluous attacks that have nothing to do >with any possible disagreement about a computer chess issue, and our warning to >him did not convince him to stop doing this. > >He was warned about a post that was an assault on Dirk that was based upon his >perception of Dirk's religious convictions. He felt free to make a blanket >statement about religious people, and to apply this to Dirk, as a means of >arguing with something that Dirk had said. He could have commented on what Dirk >had said, but instead he felt the need to comment on Dirk. When he was warned >via email that he should not do this again, he was not at all apologetic -- he >replied instead that he couldn't see anything wrong with what he had done. > >Since this warning he has done some similar personal stuff including (but >absolutely not limited to) calling one poster "stupid" a few times, questioning >another poster's ability to read, and making an oblique reference to the sex >life of a third. This must stop, and suspending the account seems to be the >only way to stop it. > >We have had several people express frustration at the amount of things that >Thorsten has "gotten away with" recently and not so recently. To these people I >would like to apologize, since the delay in doing something about Thorsten has >been my fault. I did not want to do this lightly. I think it is the most >serious thing that this current group of moderators, at least, has had to do, >and I wanted to make absolutely sure that it was not done too soon, and it >seemed to me that the best way to make sure that it wasn't done too soon was to >do it a little too late. If one thing has become certain to me, it is that I >achieved this goal. > >This group may not realize it yet, but it will miss Thorsten's political >viewpoint. And everyone should know that they will miss his on-topic >contributions. I would like to try to figure out a way that we can get Thorsten >back here, and still be assured that he doesn't repeat the kind of attacks that >he has posted lately. I was hoping that this would become possible before we >had to suspend his account, but things didn't work out this way. I have some >ideas about this that I am discussing with Steve in the hopes that things can >still work out. > >This has been an unpleasant decision, and several people have been angered and >frustrated by what has happened, and perhaps some have been angered by this >announcement. I would like to encourage anyone who has anything to say to >please reply to this post. > >bruce > >Copyright (C) 1998, Bruce Moreland. All rights reserved. It is permitted to >reproduce this post outside of CCC as long as it is quoted accurately, and in >its entirety, and with this notice included. Thank´s to the moderators Venlig hilsen Hans Chr. Lykke
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