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Subject: Re: Moderation: Troll

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:06:51 10/27/99

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On October 27, 1999 at 19:18:03, Jeff Anderson wrote:

>I do not know what the term "troll" means in this context, but I had no evil
>intent.  I just wished to point out that there are dozens of GM's who cannot
>play crafty because there ratings are below 2850, the cut off point for playing
>crafty at the time I made this post.  I also realize now that I was partialy
>wrong, because Mr. Hyatt says now that he often makes exceptions to this rule by
>giving select players a 'password' to play crafty.
>

Sorry, but I (for one) don't buy such a cavalier toss-off.  You could have
made your point in any of a hundred different and non-insulting ways.  The
way you wrote it was definitely 'trolling' for action.  I just refused to bite
after one explanation of why your 'assumption' was flawed...



>
>On October 27, 1999 at 11:14:18, KarinsDad wrote:
>
>>On October 26, 1999 at 19:38:08, Jeff Anderson wrote:
>>
>>>Crafy has a formula that prevents dozens and dozens of GM's from playing it on
>>>ICC.
>>>
>>>The following are GM's who are not deemed by Mr. Hyatt good enough to play
>>>Crafty:
>>
>>Why do people insist on writing obvious trolls?
>>
>>Instead of stating that Crafty is arrogant or that GM's are not deemed good
>>enough by Dr. Hyatt, why didn't you just say: "It would appear that the
>>following GMs are not able to play Crafty on ICC. Is this true or is there
>>something I am missing?"?
>>
>>It's so annoying to read this type of blatant jab.
>>
>>KarinsDad :)
>>
>>>Giovanni Vescovi, Loek van Wely, Maxim Dlugy, Miguel Quinteros, Einar Gausel,
>>>Tony Miles, Mihail Saltaev, hugo spangenbrg, Friso Nijboer, Yuri Shulman, Felix
>>>Izeta, Eran Liss, gerald hertneck, Pablo Zarnicki, Ilan Manor, Gregory Kaidanov,
>>>as well as many many other GM's who do not have their name public.
>>>
>>>
>>>Crafty also refuses to any computer chess programs that require an increment.
>>>That eliminates most of your strong commercial programs, as they must be
>>>manually operated.
>>>
>>>
>>>When you are very picky about who you play, good things can happen to your
>>>rating.



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