Author: Mike Castañuela
Date: 11:07:26 07/22/99
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Fernando, thanks for explain gently to all us the causes of your decision. I think, based on your posts, that you're person type friend and humanistic. Maybe be moderator is not your vocation, which requires a little of gendarmerie. But please continue posting. On July 22, 1999 at 13:46:02, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Due to severe and unsurpassable differences between me and Bruce Moreland >concerning the moderation issue, I publicaly announce my resignation to the >post. The reasons: when I was candidate to be moderator, I already stated -as I >already have done in several post- that i was not inclined to deletions, neither >to warn people because "off topic" posts. That has always seemed to me childish, >silly, narrow minded. I already gave my reasons to tolerate that kind of off >topic post, so I will not repeat here my ideas about that. Now I am myself >victim of a deletion because of a joke that Bruce consider is only worthy to be >in the wall of my bathroom. I do not know what kind of things Bruce has seen in >his or another walls, by probably he has not seen the joke i wrote here. It is >the kind of thing you can lesson in any table after dinner. Not the great thing. >For the same token, the sheer fact that Bruce was upset by that or he thought >somebody was going to be is something laughable for me, in the very fringe of >paronia. But nevertheless maybe he is right and almost all people here share his >point of view. I got the second higher number of votes in the election, but >maybe it was just a case of statistical error. Maybe it is me who is out of >place here, anyway. Maybe this is, like some british programmer warned me to be, >a place just for robots, not for human beings. Or in any case is like the robots >rule the site and the rest must comply or be deleted, warned and treated like >children. >I have nothing againts Bruce as a person, surely he is a nice guy and a >respected professional in his area, but I do have something against some of his >ideas about how to moderate this site and clearly he feel the same about me. So >why I resign instead of him or a long disputation about this issue? Well, >because this things cares the less to me. I do not get a life reading, posting >or moderating here. Asd Ingo Althofer, the german mathematician saw with his >eyes when in my country and my home, I am not precisely a deprived man looking >for a place where to get a life. So I think this, my resignation, is the best >things to all and as much there is a replacement for me, nothing will be >damaged, all the contrary. >I post this not because I want to begin a war or make a melodramatic sortie, >because I suppose I will stay reading and posting here from time to time if >Bruce graciously abide to that, but I do it just to warn you not to consider me >responsible of any actions taken in the goverment of this site from now on. >Cheers >Fernando
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