Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 15:38:03 11/16/99
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On November 16, 1999 at 13:50:48, Bella Freud wrote: >Hi Uri, > >I don't know if you are talking about me. Perhaps not. > >I want to know why I am beign provoked elsewhere. > >Yesterday I had an email from Bruce that was an "official warning". Bruce said I >should post on-topics. Bruce copied the email warning to the other moderators. >Fair enough, I thought, if he felt this way. > >So I posted only on-topic. I made three on-topic posts and did not do anything >else that Bruce could say was an attack. > > >I posted this in reply to Ratko Atomic's post: > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >On November 15, 1999 at 17:36:28, Bella Freud wrote: > >[snip] >> >> >>I consider it needs 24 hours to digest the true genius of your post. >> >>It generated in me an instant crystalisation of thought. Just by your inversion. >>Chess programs are playing "negative" chess. They avoid obvious loss by ply N. >>For them perfection is in loss avoidance (the not totally obvious opposite of >>win seeking). Therefore no style, no plan, no class. Just dumb obstructionism. >> >> >>Bella >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >I thought this post was entorely on-topic and fair thing to say. >Then I got a reply to my post from the anonymous moderator "KarinsDad". > >This is his reply: >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >I posted this same thought a few months back. Of course, my post was not as >eloquent or well thought out as Ratko's. You must have missed it. I guess the >idea is not that appealing to you anymore since I never contribute anything >worthwhile. > >KarinsDad :) >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >I think that the last sentence is a provocation. Or a troll. It is designed to >get me to react. > >Why does an anonymous moderator do this? He must have read the "warning" from >Bruce, and he must also have seen that I was making on-topic posts. > >So why is he trying to stir things up? > >It seems that there are some folk who don't like what I do, whatever I do, and >who are trying to get me banned. Or is there some other wierd motive? > > >Bella I think it was more a private email than a moderator email, which in that case his private emails really have little to do with his moderation ones.
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