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Subject: Re: Moderation:insults

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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