Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:09:10 01/04/00
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On January 04, 2000 at 13:37:09, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On January 04, 2000 at 13:19:06, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On January 04, 2000 at 13:09:45, Pete Galati wrote: >>>On January 04, 2000 at 12:34:20, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>>On January 04, 2000 at 02:09:11, frank zimmer wrote: >>>> >>>>>Thats fine as long as you are not running! >>>> >>>>I'm not. >>> >>>I was not here in time to be eligable to vote in the last election, is there >>>some sort of nomination process involved in this, or does a person just toss >>>their hat into the ring? >>> >>>I don't ask that so that I can toss my hat into the ring, I would refuse to >>>serve as a moderator myself, it's just a matter of curiousity. >>> >>>Is that something that is gone over in one of the mountains of text that I >>>didn't read? >> >>Usually, people are nominated. Most refuse to run. Fortunately, there have >>been enough to fill the positions for each time. I am not a good person to have >>as a moderator, because I find it hard to stay completely neutral, > >There is no such a thing as being neutral. Something else is being fair, and you >have been as far as I can tell. I did my best, which wasn't all that great[1]. Bruce probably carried the biggest load of the moderation work (partly because he was the most experienced). KD was also a very good choice. I can't say that my being chosen was some kind of injustice, because I wasn't chosen. I got the job by abdication. Really, just about anyone could do the job (and most better than me) as long as a bit of common sense is exercised. I'm really not a chess expert (computer or regular OTB) so my being chosen even as 4th place is rather mysterious to me. >> and I speak >>my mind too often. > >Well done. What's wrong with that? Well, I don't think it is *wrong* so much as not optimal. The best moderator is one who is completely invisible. Someone who never gets embroiled in controversies and things of that nature. Not everyone can do that (me especially). I'm probably not the worst imaginable choice, but I am really not as well suited as a large number of others would have been. I tend to polarize opinions because I state my position very firmly at times. [1] But right in line with my platform promise.
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