Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 01:19:51 12/21/98
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On December 21, 1998 at 02:51:01, Will Singleton wrote: >On December 21, 1998 at 01:16:40, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: > >>On December 20, 1998 at 23:18:42, James Robertson wrote: >> >>>On December 20, 1998 at 20:58:01, Marc Plum wrote: >>> >>>>Well this is understandable, but I doubt if it was really necessary. I had >>>>learned long ago not to bother reading any of his posts. When he was not being >>>>offensive, he was usually just inane, and I didn't have the patience to decipher >>>>his semi-literate style of writing. >>>> >>>>For the record, though, I am not interested in seeing anyone banned, even if I >>>>find them offensive. It is so simple not to click on posts from someone like >>>>Evans once I learn that they have nothing to say. On the other hand, someone >>>>may have been interested in his rantings. If he wasn't using up ridiculous >>>>amounts of bandwidth, why not let him post and just ignore him? >>>> >>>>I expect I will continue to see his name in headers on rgcc. As usual, I just >>>>won't read these messages. No sweat. >>>> >>> >>>Then why have moderators? >> >>Good point, on the other hand banning him now creats the problem for the new >>moderator's, as they will surely have to decide when and if he can come back. >> > >Never. End of issue. > > >>Also, I believe that a moderator's last recourse should be the banning of >>anyone. It creats a lot of new agravations for everyone, such as this spiraling >>thread here with his name in it... > >Ahh, mr. slug, it's easy to change the subject of a thread. As to your >assertion that banning a member creates aggravation, may I suggest that the >opposite is true. That is, failure to ban a misbehaving member creates >aggravation. Do you intend for this forum to become a haven for raconteurs, or >rather a place for the serious programmer and enthusiast to discuss computer >chess? > >Will Ahh, without 'bouncing', back onto the subject of whether this individual should have been banned at this particular time so close to the holliday's, and so close to this election, I must ask this question in reply to your post; Why can't this be a forum (=haven), for raconteurs, (: a person who excels in telling anecdotes, quoted from the Merriam Webster dictionary on AOL), and also the rest as stated above? mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!
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