Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 14:23:13 05/06/99
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On May 06, 1999 at 17:17:32, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On May 06, 1999 at 15:37:05, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On May 06, 1999 at 14:44:31, Charles Milton Ling wrote: >> >>>On May 06, 1999 at 14:08:07, Ed Schröder wrote: >>> >>>>On May 06, 1999 at 13:51:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>> >>>>>In light of recent decisions here, I would like to request that the login >>>>>id "bob" be removed. I see no reason to consider becoming active here again >>>>>based on todays 'decisions'. >>>>> >>>>>Things are "out of control." >>>> >>>>I agree, please remove my login id "ed" also. >>>> >>>>Ed Schroder >>> >>>I was not able to find any "decisions" made to today that would warrant such >>>drastic action, but I may have looked in the wrong places? >>>Can somebody explain? It would be terrible if CCC would go the way of rgcc. >>>Charley >> >>Will Singleton (one of the moderators) posted that a thread had been deleted. >>Ulrich Tuerke followed that message up with a post, and from that I guess some >>harsh words were said between Harald Faber (another of the moderators) and Bob >>Hyatt. I am not sure if the "decision" Bob refers to is the deletion of the >>thread or some comment made in the thread. >> >>The computer chess community is not so large, so it is (usually!) regrettable >>when people leave, either of their own volition, or they are forced to. For >>instance, Thorsten Czub had many interesting things to say, even though I >>absolutely detested some of his posts! I think that most people here understand >>how much the participation of people like Bob and Ed mean to our group, so >>there's no need for me to go on about it. >> >>Finally, I would like to reaffirm my support for a moderated forum. We may >>still lose people from CCC from time to time, but my experience is that we lose >>more contributors when there's a lack of moderation than from it being present. >> >>Dave > >Giving every complainer the bullet and burying them in an unmaked grave does >make for an orderly society, but doesn't it seem that there can be a compromise >between that and anarchy? > >bruce I agree. Apparently, we haven't found it yet. [I will clarify that I did not have the opportunity to read whatever was biffed, so it is somewhat difficult for me to know what was deleted.] For what it is worth, I believe that debate about the moderation policy within a group is always "on topic". Dave
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