Author: Johan Hutting
Date: 12:50:33 11/03/03
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On November 03, 2003 at 10:37:59, Bob Durrett wrote: >On November 03, 2003 at 10:21:14, Johan Hutting wrote: > >>On November 03, 2003 at 10:13:58, Johan Hutting wrote: >> >>>On November 03, 2003 at 10:08:08, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>He was banned for 1 month because of his bad behaviour. >>>>He attacked me in his posts and I complained about it. >> >><snip> >>On a more serious note, I seem to recall you claiming you would not respond to >>his post in the future due to his behaviour. I do this as well with some of the >>trolls in this group. I also don't bother reading their posts so I won't be >>tempted to reply :) > >You cannot escape "temptation." Do you refuse to watch television? Refuse to >look at newspapers? Refuse to listen to politicians and preachers? Temptation >is everywhere! Much better is to learn how to deal with it. Isolation doesn't >work. One can walk a straighter path if one's eyes are open! My remark wasn't about general temptations, but about stating you won't do a thing but then giving in to temptation. Uri stated he wouldn't read nor respond to vincents posts in the future and asked other programmers to do the same. Giving in to temptation when making such a statement is a sign of weakness IMHO. >Censorship is also ineffective and hence pointless. It is too easy to decide >that someone is a troll [or worse] if what they say doesn't feel right. Closing >one's ears is inviting disaster! As a former history student I prefer to choose my sources wisely :) >The strength of CCC is it's general policy of permissiveness. The moderators >are "moderate" and that is a good thing. Let's hope that it stays that way. Sure, CCC is nice in this way, as long as the moderators act appropriatly. > >[I apologize for this bulletin not being about some exotic computer chess >topic.] No need to, although I'll pop back to CC now ;)
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