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Subject: Re: Moderation

Author: José Carlos

Date: 00:06:20 01/16/03

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On January 15, 2003 at 12:40:58, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On January 15, 2003 at 12:05:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 15, 2003 at 11:42:59, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>>
>>>On January 15, 2003 at 02:36:52, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 15, 2003 at 00:38:17, George Wilson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Wow he beats the Micro's anytime he wants to! Once even played 5 computer
>>>>>simultaneously and won all five game and was blindfolded!!!
>>>>
>>>>Where is the content here, or are you just smashing Vincent?
>>>>
>>>>bruce
>>>
>>>
>>>It's inappropriate IMO. I also felt this way about:
>>>
>>>http://Daft:zmeup@www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?277105
>>>
>>>While disguised as OT, clearly its intent was to embarass Vince.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>It's intent was _not_ to embarass anyone.  It was intended to verify
>>a specific claim made by vincent.  It certainly is related to computer
>>chess since Crafty is a computer chess program.  Vincent made the claim
>>here more than once and I challenged him on it.  If it isn't on topic,
>>then none of the GM vs computer matches have been "on topic" either, nor
>>has discussing similar things...
>>
>>If vincent is "embarassed" he has only himself to blame.  _he_ made the
>>ridiculous claim...  I just challenged him on it since it is one of the
>>few times where an outrageous claim by him can be directly proven false
>>by simply playing some games on a chess server.
>
>
>If the claim was "ridiculous" as you say, then there was no good reason for your
>"challenge." You would have done better by just ignoring it and letting it die a
>quiet death.

  You could also ignore Bob's challenge if you don't like it, couldn't you?

  José C.


>I think pretending you don't have an axe to grind with Vince will be convincing
>to very few here.
>
>
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>>>Certainly, Vince seems to have invited this sort of thing upon himself with
>>>questionable posts of his own, but I don't think that means everybody is thereby
>>>entitled to likewise to Vince. I don't like the idea of the lowest common
>>>denominator setting the standard of behavior for everyone else. I think instead
>>>the moderators should have step in much earlier with this sort of thing and all
>>>this could have been headed off.
>>>
>>>I'm glad you spoke up about this. I was waivering about complaining to the
>>>moderators, because I assumed the complaint would be rejected and all this
>>>misspent energy would go on in any case.
>>
>>I can't speak for the other moderators.  They do their own analysis.  However,
>>this is just as much "on topic" as all the "Nemeth beat fritz" discussions
>>except that this is a much easier claim to bust...



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