Author: blass uri
Date: 15:08:01 07/12/99
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On July 12, 1999 at 17:57:53, KarinsDad wrote: >On July 12, 1999 at 16:13:04, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >[snip] > >>Personally I'd rather not see a huge number of articles here that don't apply to >>computer chess, from people who are not at all interested in computer chess. I >>have a concern that people find this place, and think that it is a general chess >>message board, and that these people will outnumber those of us who are >>interested in the actual subject of this message board. I'm concerned that >>posts of this sort could dilute this place to the point where it's no longer >>about computer chess. >> >>Maybe we'll end up deleting posts that are perfectly normal polite posts, but >>are too much chess or computer related with not enough relevance to the >>intersection of those two topics. >> > >I do not see that as much of a problem here. Take for example this thread that >we are in. There were 5 replies to the original post about Karpov, etc. There >were 4 times that number of replies to Christophe's asking to talk about >computer chess. The original thread basically died down to 6 postings. The >extended thread on topicality was much larger (which it has been argued that >topicality posts are on topic). > >I would estimate that less than 5% of all new threads are off topic (this >includes things such as tournament announcements, ratings announcements, maximum >number of possible chess positions, results of current tournaments, etc.). The >frequency of taking an on topic thread and making it off topic (jokes, >sidelines, etc.) is slightly higher, but even so, maybe about 10% of all posts >are off topic and a good portion of these are on chess related topics. I very >much doubt that there are that many people interested in diluting the board to >the level where it will become unbearable and if that starts to happen, people >should notify the moderators and they should step in. > >KarinsDad :) I do not think that counting the number of chess positions is not computer-chess It is chess because we are talking about chess positions and it is related to computer because I used a computer program to calculate the bound. Uri
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