Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 05:35:49 02/20/99
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On February 20, 1999 at 08:31:37, Albert Silver wrote: >On February 20, 1999 at 00:13:10, Will Singleton wrote: > >>On February 19, 1999 at 20:32:35, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >> >>>One of the moderators felt that he had something to tell me. He did it in an >>>email which is, not only in my opinion, but also in the opinion of some other >>>people on this forum to whom I sent it (to check if I had misjudged it), a >>>scandalous piece of malicious communication. Deeply hurt, and shaken, still >>>incredulous, I hereby withdraw from this Forum. I am hurt even more as there >>>are many nice and civilised people here whom I will surely miss. However, the >>>only course of action that I felt I could pursue now was to simply leave. >>> >>>Best regards to CCC! >>> >>>Djordje >> >> >>Today I sent a message to Djordje. It contained a request to desist from >>off-topic posts. (And I apologize for this post, but felt I had to set the >>record straight.) >> >>After that simple and polite request, I said I was removing my moderator hat, >>and the rest of the message was personal, just from me to him. I took issue >>with some of the statements he had made, and requested some further information. >> If he felt I was harsh, I did not intend to be at all. But that was strictly >>between him and me. It was a PERSONAL communication, that was absolutely clear. >> There is no reason at all for him to withdraw. My moderator duties do not >>prohibit me from emailing someone on a personal basis. >> >>I apologized to him because I wrote something in a way that could have been >>misunderstood. But nothing harsh or underhanded was intended. Sometimes we all >>have strong opinions, and we express them sometimes well or sometimes poorly. >>Maybe I expressed them poorly. >> >>But this was a personal message, had NOTHING to do with CCC, and he has no >>reason to withdraw. He makes very valuable contributions, and we would all miss >>his presence. >> >>Will Singleton > >I must admit I found this intriguing. I don't understand how you expect take >your moderator hat off in the middle of an official communication. Imagine a >letter that followed these lines: > >Dear Sir, > > As a moderator I am writing to bring your attention to a proliferation >of off-topic posts, which on a personal note I thought were incredibly stupid. >Indeed this desire to write on topics not directly related to computer chess, >nor having the words computer or chess in them (or acceptable synonyms) has been >cause for a certain amount of alarm, and on a personal note, what do I care if >you are currently being held prisoner in a hidden camp for ethnic cleansing? >Such posts detract from the purpose of this group which is, as I am duty-bound >to remind you, about computer chess, or tolerably, about either chess (as long >as the position was submitted to Crafty or Fritz), or computers (if their >purpose is chess related or have at least one chess program installed on it. NB: >Microsoft Chess is not considered valid for this purpose). On a personal note, >what the hell do you expect us to do about some bogus address in Serbia? Form a >a protest group in front of gates that you yourself explain are watched by men >in black ski-masks armed with automatic weapons? Ha! Get real! As moderator I >was relieved to see that in your last post you state that this will probably be >your post so I presume that no future warnings on this subject will be >neccessary. > > Best regards, > > Your friendly Moderator > >Of course, I am exaggerating Not that much... Reality is sometimes worse than fiction. Enrique > but you can see what an ambiguous foot this puts >you on. Think about it. > > Albert Silver
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