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Subject: Re: Announcing moderator elections

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 03:06:51 12/07/98

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I'm reposting this in case someone's filter missed it.

Amir



On December 06, 1998 at 05:56:15, Amir Ban wrote:

>
>The moderators, in consultation with our sponsors at ICD, decided to call on you
>to elect a new panel of moderators for CCC.
>
>The new panel will be elected for 6 months, starting January 1st, 1999, and
>ending June 30th, 1999. There will be three moderators in the new panel.
>The process will be like this: We will now start taking nominations for
>moderators from you. You can nominate any CCC member by posting here, or by
>sending email to ICD. Steve will be posting the list of nominees from time
>to time, and at some point will ask the nominees to make their views on
>moderation policy known, as happened last time, so that you can make an
>informed decision. If a nominee does not wish to run, he should inform
>Steve of this. Sometime during December, we will hold elections for
>moderators by opinion poll.
>
>We will continue to act as moderators until the new moderators start acting
>January 1st. We have been doing this for seven months, and all three of us
>wish to return to be ordinary CCC members now, and do not seek reelection.
>
>Here's a brief job description for a CCC moderator:
>
>The job of the moderator is to make sure that the CCC charter is observed
>by CCC members, which briefly means that the discussion is civil and on
>topic. The moderators have several sanctions available against members
>who do not follow the charter, one of which is to delete posts from the
>message board, and another to deny access to CCC for a period of time or
>indefinitely. A moderator is elected as one of a trio of moderators. By default,
>moderation actions are taken by majority vote, though the moderators may decide
>for themselves in which circumstances to waive this and give individual members
>power to act alone, and indeed are encouraged to set such working rules
>immediately after being elected.
>
>The Computer Chess Club has become one of the most important avenues of
>communication for our field. We call on all of you to contribute to our
>community by nominating and voting, and by standing for election if nominated.
>
>Amir Ban
>Bruce Moreland
>Don Dailey



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