Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 14:56:20 03/24/99
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On March 24, 1999 at 13:33:40, Mike Saavedra wrote: >The contraversy over ICS Cheats was interesting. I don't see how speaking out >one's views and beliefs is slander. Besides "the truth" is subjective. Imagine >what would happen to newspaper editorials, movie and book reviews, ect, all >expressing their views, were subject to the same "slander" scrutiny some posters >had on a 750 player suspected of cheating on a meaningless ICS game! I think its >blown out of proportion, and the person on the "perceived" wrong end of the >cheating incident has EVERY RIGHT to express his opinion and belief on the >situation. Besides, slander has to involve malice and character assasination, >which I did not witness on the initial post. Have we become so sensitive?? >Just my two cents! The plain fact is do we want this forum to be open up to speculation and innuendo. The charter protects members from personal attacks from other members, but we seem to feel it is allright to attack non members. Can someone tell me what would happen if this person Odell is accusing was a member of CCC (and who knows he might be), What if this person wrote to the moderators and told them that Odell is calling me a cheater, he said he knows the persons real name. So this person could say that Odell has a personal revenge to get back at him. What then would the moderators do. Since this would be an attack on a fellow member (to which this member broke no rules within CCC, thus CCC moderators have no right to judge him on his outside actions away from CCC and it does not affect us here) would they not have to punish or warn Odell. So if this is the case why do we allow this trash to be bought in here in the first place. Why can we not have this discussion, but without bringing in names. This is the second time this has happened, and both times we have had two opposing sides. I think it is about time we cleared this up. I make no apolagy for my view on this matter. I do not think it should be a forum were we can call people cheaters, (proof or no proof). Frankly I do not care what this person did. I get on chess servers to play chess.
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