Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:37:04 11/18/98
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On November 17, 1998 at 18:36:13, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On November 17, 1998 at 15:08:21, frank phillips wrote: > >>On 16th November Amir Ban wrote at the end of a post about Deep Blue: >>Sometime when the CCC charter will be revised I propose an item that says Bob >>can only post on topics he understands and bothered to check the facts. >>Amir >> >> >>Hope this applies only to Bob. I know very little about anything and was hoping >>to say all kinds of stupid things on a number of matters. I come here to learn >>and there are quite a few members who seem only too willing to put others >>straight. Some in kind, generous ways. Others less so. >> >>Who decides if a person is qualified enough to speak on an issue? And where do >>I get permission? >> >>Any (other) moderator got a view on this? > >My view is that Amir was kind of upset at Bob. > >Say whatever you want. Nobody decides who is qualified enough to speak on an >issue. There are a lot of good ideas waiting to be expressed, and even a bad >idea might jog someone else into having a better one. > >I think there is a lot of bandwidth here available for people to use making >honest attempts to advance this field or their own understanding of it. > >bruce Here's "my"take on this. If I were "king" of this message board, and had absolute authority over what was posted and what was deleted and who was allowed in and who was kicked out... I'd probably behave a lot differently than some of you might expect me to. IE in the case of Amir I'd do *nothing*. Because he posts perfectly reasonable stuff most of the time. He has a sensitive point about deep blue. As do I. I tend to look "at the big picture". If someone is mainly abusive, my "kingly" decision would be "bye-bye". If the post mostly good stuff with a few transgressions scattered around, I would simply ignore it. The only hard part would be where to draw the line. Out if over 25% of posts are abusive? 10%? 50%? That wold be the only hard issue and I would probably have a different "n" for each person... I wish we could get off the "cheating" thread about the fritz autoplayer, and about the cheating issue in the DB vs Kasparov match, and get onto something "interesting" about either of those subjects. Whether or not it will ever happen is anybody's guess, however...
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