Author: Jason Kent
Date: 05:36:31 02/05/05
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On February 05, 2005 at 07:14:49, Richard Pijl wrote: > >>As a moderator,if you received a properly submitted compliant (on the Moderator >>e-mail form)from a member objecting to the OT nature of these posts,even though >>the posts relate to chess, but not computer chess,(as dicated by the >>charter),how would you respond? > >A moderator should try to maintain a friendly athmosphere in the forum, and make >sure the main subject discussed is computer chess. > >Most OT posts are by itself not a problem. It becomes a problem when OT threads >get a lot of responses due to the nature of the question or other type of >content in the post. Fortunately most off-topic posts attract only a few >responses. >But when an OT post attracts a lot of discussion, it makes it easier and more >likely that the tread is deleted, especially after a complaint via the moderator >form. >Richard. I'd like to interpret the charter similarly to the current moderation. A little leniency can be allowed as long at the subject is declared "OT". I disagree that the bigger OT threads should be more likely to be deleted. Of course, an easy policy like this were to make many more OT posts, I might change my mind. Jason
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