Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 02:06:18 07/01/03
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On June 30, 2003 at 19:35:37, Mike Byrne wrote: >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! I am not pissed off at you. If someone gets angry and craps on the moderators in a post, it usually causes more harm than good to take it down. Other people get upset about the post coming down, because they think that the moderators might be trying to silence someone who has a valid point, and the person in question almost always feels like this, and writes another angry post, and because the first post is gone, general paranoia ensues on the part of the person and various other usual suspects (including me) and troublemakers (hopefully not me). Nobody knows what is going on, other than that the moderators burned a post criticizing the moderators, and nobody can see if the author had a point, so there is a lot of conversation about that, and eventually Chris W is reactivated and we talk about his various bannings for a few weeks. Being a CCC moderator is a constant battle to avoid flushing your head down the toilet. It's a lot harder than it sounds, and those who have never tried it, should try it. It is a nasty enough job that were I to update my resume, I would certainly put that on it. I pointed out the eBay thing to show that a certain amount of off-topic stuff happens here. I don't argue that this is a bad thing. The more people who know about that particular eBay fraud the better. It's been going on for at least six months to a year though. It is very tricky, and a few times I've actually gone (manually, not through the link) to my eBay account in order to make sure that everything is in order. bruce
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