Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 08:58:59 02/22/99
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On February 21, 1999 at 05:01:58, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On February 21, 1999 at 01:09:23, KarinsDad wrote: > >>For the people who replied to Djordje: >> >>It's one thing to offer sympathy to Djordje and to ask him to reconsider. >> >>It is another thing to judge a moderator without having the facts. >> >> >>Quite frankly, from my point of view, what Djordje did to bring this to the >>forum in the manner in which he did was borderline inappropriate. If he wanted >>to leave, so be it. It is his decision. But he (in reality) anonomously attacked >>all 3 moderators in the manner in which he brought this to people's attention. >> >>Without the facts, judging Will for an Email that he sent without reading it is >>wrong. >> >>Also, I think that Djordje could have responded back to Will first in an attempt >>to find out the reasons for Will's message as opposed to the way in which he >>reacted. >> >>And even after Will apoplogized, people started stating that what he did was >>wrong because he used one Email to send an official communication along with an >>unofficial one. Bad form guys. It's not your place to judge this. It's totally >>irrelevant. >> >>This moderator attacking business is getting real old. Especially when it is >>just personal opinion shouting and not based on real information. The moderators >>are people too, not punching bags. > >I haven't seen the email. Some have seen it. It would be hard to comment about >this without having seen it. Either way you comment about it, somebody who has >seen the mail could club you over the head if you didn't correctly guess what >was in the email. I don't think I've seen a comment from a native English >speaker, perhaps a nuance is being misunderstood, for example. I have read the email, but I am not a native English speaker. I know that Djordje is far more familar with English than I am. So it is very well possible that I did not get a nuance of the message but Djordje did. IMO, the mail was a very unfortunate mixture about off-topic posts, the engagement of the USA in serbia, and a - may be somewhat harsh - request for the source code of the voyager program. If I were the receiver, I would not have been happy about this mail, but I think I would not have be hurted that much. On the other hand, one must assume that Djordje, as a Serb, is very deeply concerned about the current political situation. So I can imagine that his feelings had been hurt by treating this topic on the same level (in the same mail) as computer chess. I sincerely regret Djordje's withdrawel. Will has at least tried to apologize. I hope that Djordje will reconsider. Uli > >On the other hand, here is another example of someone complaining that they got >nasty email from the moderators. > >Having gotten some myself I think I understand the feelings that this kind of >email produces. > >This place has been running fairly smoothly since the first of the year, and the >current moderators deserve credit for this. But I'd hope that the moderators >would notice that when this place hasn't run smoothly it seems to have been >because they've pissed someone off via email, and maybe they could take the hint >from this that they need to be more careful about the way they address the >people who elected them. > >bruce
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