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Subject: Re: This is what a very accomplished troll does...

Author: Roger Brown

Date: 18:02:56 02/06/06

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  At one point being a non-techie I was
>>actually wondering if just maybe....
>>
>
>This is Roger Brown posting? The guy who used to speak for us poor users at
>times ? You have become a chessprogrammer yourself now and chose to join the
>darkside? ;)




Hello Peter,

I wish I was a chessprogrammer!

However I see what damage a missing punctuation sign can do.  Let us look at
that sentence again.

As posted, it suggests that I used to be a non-techie but now I am not.

That would be a gross misrepresentation of the facts.

:-))

Rewritten, I should have said:

At one point, being a non-techie, I was ....

Those commas make it clear that I was, still am and forever will be firmly on
the side of the non techie users (of which you are not one so do not even try to
sneak in!)

:-))


I still do my work for the users but I am talking directly to the authors of the
good stuff (yay, Winboard forever!!) instead of posting.

The general computerchess mood is a lot less friendly these days so I avoid it
like the plague.

:-(


Always good to read a Peter Berger post.  Seems a rarity these days
unforunately.


>
>Anyway, I am convinced that chandler yergin is serious with his posts and no
>troll at all.


Hmmmm, I cannot disagree but I believe that there are some unresolved issues
somewhere...



 To some extent that's KISS, but there is lots of other evidence.
>
>Maybe (probably?) his current approach is not viable for CCC in the long run,
>and I can understand how this might very well be the case, but there should be
>better answers than banishment and moderation.



Such as therapy?  You have no other way to stop a member from posting if the
moderators get a slew of complaints.  Not that I would even bother.


Later.



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