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Subject: Re: Confused

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 16:35:37 06/30/03

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On June 30, 2003 at 14:19:49, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>>>I have deleted Kim's initial two posts as "offtopic".
>
>I can't understand this.  Someone is complaining about a moderation decision.
>The charter says, that our posts should be "within reason, on the topic of
>computer chess".
>
>Of course, you can argue that posts arguing with moderator decisions are not on
>the topic of computer chess.
>
>The problem with this is that the moderators are elected by us, and so their
>actions are of interest to us.  If someone feels that they are wronged by a
>moderator, and complains about it, the rest of us should be able to see it,
>since this has a lot of bearing upon the way the forum is run.
>
>The moderators are in charge of the forum, but the members elect the moderators,
>and therefore the members have some right to know what the moderators are doing.
>
>In the past I have objected to these "disappearing" posts, and I continue to
>object to them.  I think that moderators have no business trying to quell
>dissent under the guise of deleting "off-topic" posts.
>
>Especially given that I scrolled down and saw a post from a moderator, about
>eBay.  The connection between eBay and computer chess is tenuous at best.
>
>bruce

Bruce,

I respect your opinion a lot.  I thought I was doing a forum a good deed. but
apparantly people like to read the off topic posts about someone's day of woe.
In the future nobody should ever request me to take a post down about being "off
topic" when they read a post  that describe someone's day of woe  with CCC
and/or CTF.  I am no longer deleting them.  I will also no longer post any more
"warnings" that deal with the unsavory internet world.

I found her original post made on CCC on CTF -

http://www.talkchess.com/forums/2/message.html?82699

Enjoy!

Michael



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