Author: KarinsDad
Date: 15:32:15 01/10/00
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On January 10, 2000 at 03:10:07, david ballard wrote: Since you claim I insulted you, I will respond. 1) You have no rights here. You, me, and everyone else only has privilege here (except Steve). >I would to take this opportunity to clarify some recent events. This is not >really on the subject of computer programs so move on if that is what you were >looking for. Instead I wanted to clear the air with the people responsible for >this forum. I've read a few of the articles and I have been intrigued by the >intensity of the conversations within. However it is my OPINION that this forum >is run by a "select" few who seem to think they can do as they please because >they are running this forum. Why do I say this? I have some merit behind my >accusations. 2) Please tell us who is running this forum as opposed to yet another example of unsubstantiated claims and unspecified individuals. Nobody "runs" this forum and does as they please. There are moderators who try to minimize the nonsense, but that is why it is called a "moderated forum". If you do not like moderation, fine, go to r.g.c.c. and leave the people who are interested in on topic discussions here alone. > >About four nights ago I was playing on my favorite chess site (yahoo!) when >someone came in with the following name: "david_ballard_aka_curious_bob." Now >frankly I did not choose my real name (thankful that I didn't now). The fact is >that someone on here read my posts and stalked me over to yahoo. Not only that >but he\she seemed to pretend that they knew me. > >Now I am all for jokes, and maybe that was one albeit a revolting one! So in a >joking response I posted a rather hilarious (in my opinion) letter. In this I >stated not to take it seriously and to leave it be so that the person who >stalked me had a chance to reply to it. Not only was it deleted shortly, but in >the email sent to me the "system administrator" told me to and I quote: "grow >up." 3) Yes, and after this post of yours here today, I would ask you to grow up yet again. This appears to be the bone of your contention. A moderator told you to grow up in an Email. Big deal. Learn to live with it as opposed to attempting a flaming thread yet again. Your earlier post was not only off topic, but it was abusive (calling unnamed people on the forum immature kids, telling them to grow up, and making penis size references is hardly nice, let alone the other trash in that message). A person complained about your post and so I deleted it, before a bunch of people could complain about it. In your post, you told some unspecified people to grow up. So, I responded that you should grow up. I can still count on one hand the number of threads I have deleted here in the last 6 months, but the nonsense you posted the other day was among them. When you signed up for this forum, you agreed to not be abusive, to not post off topic, and to abide by the moderators decisions. But, here you are, not only posting yet another off topic post, but you are now complaining about the decision of a moderator. > >If this is yet another joke then maybe I don't have the brand of humor necessary >to participate in this forum. I realize that you have an obligation to keep the >posts toward the topic of chess software, but honestly sometimes you need to >have a little fun with things. I seriously hope that you realize their are >worse people than me posting to this forum! I.E. people who stalk others and >think it is merely a joke. > >I'd like to hope that this forum is run by some people older than 15 but I guess >I will have to wait and see. > >P.S. I think that you need to address this within the forum instead of deleting >it and insulting me at my email address where no one else will know of the >cowardice action. 4) Fine. We are now discussing it. My take: stop the nonsense, including this thread here. Your original post was pure trash. Here is part of your message: "Message for all who take this serious: GROW UP!" And yes, since I am a moderator, I do take garbage postings serious. So, in effect, you were telling the other moderators and myself to grow up. So, in my Email, I recommended that you take the action that you posted in your original message: Grow Up!. I still think you should take these words to heart. And you are now calling my action "cowardice" of telling you to grow up in an Email. At least I did it privately and not here in public like you did. Here is the entire message I sent you (minus the original posts that were deleted) so that other people can decide for themselves. Not all Email messages to people are sparkling examples of tact, but then again, it gets old when people fail to abide by the rules. "I do not know why people come on the forum and post nonsense, but please desist. As per David's own words: Grow Up! (or will you be spiteful and incapable of doing that?). The following thread was deleted: 86690 86691 86701" You posted a message (85771) earlier this year which was pretty much unsubstantiated garbage and then you did it again AFTER I responded with a moderation post to that message that you should not make unsubstantiated claims. I did not delete that post, but I did delete post 86690. You have only been here for a few weeks and you have multiple posts which people have complained about. It is not the moderators at fault here. KarinsDad :( PS. Post 86691 was a request by you to not delete post 86690 in order to make sure someone else had enough time to read post 86690. You knew post 86690 was not allowed, so you asked the moderators to not delete it right away. Obviously, you are not bothered by the fact that the post was deleted. If you want to send this type of garbage to someone via Email, that is your business. It's the moderators business when you attempt to do it here on this forum.
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