Author: Bella Freud
Date: 15:42:21 11/16/99
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On November 16, 1999 at 18:38:03, Micheal Cummings wrote: >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. This was not an email. It was a public post. It was designed as provocative. In my opinion. Bella
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