Author: Stephen A. Boak
Date: 22:04:41 02/13/06
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On February 13, 2006 at 05:51:29, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >Something went out of control in your long message but it was too long for me to >discover. :) Uh oh. What is the world coming to? Rolf with a human limitation? Too many details to learn & correct? This is almost a 'normal' conversation. Where is that relentless quest for scientific perfection? :) Eureka, I've found the formula at last--may try to bottle it & sell to other posters! And your reputation will now take a big hit. :) > >Let me ask you a simple question. Have you informations how Mr. Merlino, as you >put it, handled his PR in concern of Mr. Schwartz and his hosting interests? I do not presume to know, and therefore take no position on it. And >have you informations how Mr. Rajlich is handling it? I do not presume to know, and therefore take no position on it. It is astonishing how you >make that basic mistake when you have such a power of speech and intellect. :) Forget the intellect & whatever. Be completely clear for once--what basic mistake? I try not to pretend to know what I do not in fact know. If I have an opinion, I'm usually capable of admitting it is just an opinion. By the way, flattery won't get you anywhere. Okay, it can help at times (catch more flies with honey than vinegar). You know, Rolf, you can be a great guy at times, when you want to be! :) > >If you could find answers to my question Believe it or not (your choice, I won't force it on you), some posters are not too concerned with your questions or your answers. Some are, but that is their choice, and I don't begrudge them one bit! , then you would certainly understand >what Pete Skinner had in mind when he wrote, it's enough. I may not have a psychology degree, but I am human, and I do understand quite a bit about human motivations and behaviors (good, bad & ugly). :) I too have bad hair days. :) I tried to explain the >main fallacy in the whole presentation of Vasik's Rybka. I realize this. However, there is an old expression (from Latin, I think), the thing speaks for itself. Some things do not require added explanation, even though others believe the opposite. :) >It's the chuzpe with >regard to Steve. Because he has the costs for the traffic here and Vas has the >income from this traffic. And also you didnt propose anything to this topic. I believe in the laissez-faire system, I admit. I suspect Steve Schwartz does know how to handle his business, and very well--or this forum wouldn't have lasted this long. And having moderators with a moderator code is one avenue, agreed. He has the right to privately operate his chess programmer bulletin board to his own satisfaction. If it fits his notions of altruism in a hobby interest, no problem. If it fits his notion of a business model for attracting customers, no problem. It is his choice, period. His cost. His reward--whether internal satisfaction, desire to help others, or for economic profit, etc). > >And finally you also missed the second topic. And that is the still not >reformated forum software. The old one allows a loop in the advertisement, if >you know what I'm talking about. I saw the topic. I didn't yet study it for anti-troll functionality! >You should seek the trolls in that direction, >because you seem to be interested in that problem. I usually have enough sense to avoid feeding the trolls. We've all seen huge forum bandwidth wasted on feeding trolls in the past. Anyway, the Rybka author is not a troll by any stretch of the imagination--that's just a separate, ongoing CCC forum issue. Sometimes we pay so little attention to the trolls, and give such flaming attention to regular contributors, that we forget which way is really up. Best regards, --Steve
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