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Subject: Re: Moderation: FIDE chihuahuas

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 10:30:18 08/21/99

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On August 21, 1999 at 13:15:18, Terry Presgrove wrote:

>On August 20, 1999 at 17:29:07, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On August 20, 1999 at 13:06:12, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On August 20, 1999 at 07:30:57, Andrew Williams wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 20, 1999 at 06:06:35, Ron Norris wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>If the governing body(FIDO) of all animals of the world wished to establish
>>>>>which animal was the fiercest fighter, then invited all animals to compete,
>>>>>hoping to prove to the world that only their organisation could produce such
>>>>>a great and majestic display of competition and bravery.  But what if the
>>>>>lion declined, and the tiger declined, and the bear declined, and the rhino
>>>>>declined, but only the chihuahuas showed up.  Naturally, a chihuahua won.
>>>>>
>>>>>The very proud organisation of FIDO would proclaim their champion chihuahua
>>>>>as the only true champion.  Of course, it was assumed that the tiger, the
>>>>>lion, the bear and the rhino must have been afraid of competition from the
>>>>>fierce chihuahuas. So, as FIDO struts their newly crowned chihuahua around
>>>>>the globe, exalting his accomplishments, praising his bravery, and wanting
>>>>>all the world to acknowledge the champions skills, the world is split over
>>>>>the acceptance or denial of the newly crowned monarch of FIDO.
>>>>
>>>>I wonder what this has to do with computer chess?
>>>>
>>>>Andrew
>>>
>>>Nothing, but hopefully it will go away of its own accord.
>>>
>>>Is this getting out of control or is there little enough of this that it's not a
>>>big deal?
>>>
>>>bruce
>>
>>There was another long thread involving a moderator :) that I was about to fire
>>off a complaint about.  Instead I decided to ask them to "let it lie" and they
>>seem to be taking the hint.
>>
>>Dave
>
> So what do you do read every post to see if maybe one is worthy of whinning
> about to the elected moderators. Personally I found the post somewhat relevant,
> the metaphors do relate to chess personalities and are much more relevant to
> computer chess than the subsequent post generated by those who are always
> whinning about off topic posts.
>
> TP

I read every post.

Sometimes those threads die quickly or move on-topic, which is why I didn't
"whine to the elected moderators" immediately.  If you'll notice the post I
responded to, a moderator explicitly _asked_ for our opinions.

Follow-ups to /dev/null, please.

Dave



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