Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:35:44 12/12/98
Everyone can have opinions about how to moderate this group, but if I am going to vote for someone in particular, I would like to know how they would handle real cases. Some of these happened, or happened more or less, and some of them are purely hypothetical, and some are a mix of real events and hypothetical cases. It is easy to talk in the abstract about how you would moderate this place, but it is harder when the actual events hit you in the face, and I think that any of these is likely to come up. So, in the following cases, the question is, how would you handle this? 1) Some random member that nobody has ever heard of, and who has never written a post before, writes as his first post some random nonsense laced with obscenity, not necessarily directed at anyone. 2) A regular poster responds to a post about Fritz by calling ChessBase a "shit company". A few days later he does it again. Another poster responds with a defense of ChessBase, and concludes by making unfavorable comments about this guy's intelligence. Chessbase hater replies with a very long obscenity-laced tirade against ChessBase and against this second guy. 3) A member complains to you that a regular poster compared him unfavorably with Adolf Eichmann on rec.games.chess.computer, and includes with his complaint a long narrative about how seriously he takes this, since his family suffered at the hands of the Nazis, and demands that someone like this not be allowed to continue posting where he can see it, meaning in CCC. 4) Same guy as in the previous example complains to you that this guy is now copying his CCC posts into r.g.c.c., and is responding to them there in such a manner that would clearly be against the CCC charter if he made his responses in CCC. 5) Same guy as in previous example complains that in response to one of his CCC posts, his nemesis wrote a sarcastic reply to it (in CCC), including a ":-)" at the end of the post. You look at the reply and can see the sarcasm, but it's not something that ordinarily would have demanded attention. 6) A regular poster refers to a banned member as a "jerk" in a CCC post, which is a more or less true assessment, in your opinion. 7) Some guy registers from a hotmail account as "Donald F. Duck" and starts posting informative stuff. 8) A member posts instructions regarding how to break the copy protection on some commercial chess program. bruce
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