Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 21:50:36 11/23/05
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On November 23, 2005 at 18:25:27, Christopher Conkie wrote: >On November 23, 2005 at 16:58:56, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On November 23, 2005 at 15:42:19, Barry Culp wrote: >> >>>On November 23, 2005 at 09:53:36, William Penn wrote: >>> >>>>Ordinarily I ignore such things because getting on the bad side of a moderator >>>>is not wise... :) I didn't notice your particular message. However I have >>>>noticed that one of the moderators is apparently going hyperbolic recently with >>>>some debatable but clean messages deleted. Nothing to do except vote for a >>>>different moderator next time. >>>>WP >>> >>>I agree with William Penn. A while back, there was a long ugly "debate" on CCC >>>between P Skinner and members of the Arena team. I believe C Conkie was part of >>>that "debate". More recently, P Skinner deleted another C Conkie thread that >>>related to Chessbase GUI support and a graphics bug in the Fritz 9 GUI.. a bug >>>which I have also observed. Even Ed Schröder, who is a moderator on Chess >>>Thinkers Forum, challenged the reasons given by P Skinner for deleting the >>>thread. >>> >>>Looking forward to the next round of moderator elections >> >>When I deleted that thread it was due to a complaint that he was attacking >>Chessbase/Fritz. >> >>More recently he started a thread stating Fritz had compied code from Fruit, >>which is rediculous because he would need the source code to prove it. > >I stated no such thing. I asked a question. The question that was asked was, how >many ideas of the ideas used in Fruit people thought were in Fritz. People could >have quite simply answered "none". I have my own opinion on this which I might >add, I am perfectly entitled to as are all others theirs. > >I should like you to withdraw this accusation. I am entitled as anyone is to >speculate of whatsoever I wish. Speculation is just that, speculation. > >You should always delete rudeness but this is a discussion board and the over >zealous way you moderate is absolutely correctly questioned by the previous >posters. > >If you want to dicate Skinnerisms to everyone, go and get your own message >board. It gets quite tedious listening to you trying to justify a position that >you are obviously unable to cope with. > >Now, less of your false accusations and fiction if you don't mind please. > >Christopher You directly stated in that thread that the "walls had ears" and you "were told" that there were ideas from Fruit in Fritz. It was so obvious that the _entire_ moderation team agreed with the removal of the thread. That wasn't a Skinnerism at all, it was simply you creating noise where there isn't any to be had. Peter
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