Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 13:43:01 01/12/00
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On January 12, 2000 at 12:46:02, Terry Presgrove wrote: >On January 12, 2000 at 11:26:14, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>On January 12, 2000 at 11:10:28, Pete Galati wrote: >> >>>On January 12, 2000 at 10:28:01, Jeff Anderson wrote: >>> >>>>I thought the point of the moderators was to keep things getting into out of >>>>control nonsense, but instead the moderators seem to very much enjoy >>>>contributing to the nerdly CCC soap opera. They start entire new threads about >>>>a post they have deleted and why they have deleted, and then they reply to that >>>>thread themselves before anyone else. They announce members that have been >>>>suspended in long overly-dramatic public letters. They participate in big >>>>arguments about what dirty word someone has said, or which phrase was >>>>politically incorrect. They bicker more than anyone else in this entire forum. >>>>Generally the moderators are the biggest contributor to mammouth off-topic >>>>threads. >>>> The moderators are doing a bad job, and actually causing more problems for CCC >>>>than would occur if they did not exist at all. The moderators should err on the >>>>side of sins of ommision rather than sins of comission. >>>>I realize this post itself may contribute to the clutter on the CCC message >>>>board, but I hope it is a first step in returning things to a state where the >>>>moderators do not feel it is there duty to post their every thought publicly, >>>>and create a problem much bigger than if they did not exist at all. >>>> >>>>Jeff >>> >>>If you don't want moderators, then here's your forum: >>> >>>news:rec.games.chess.computer >>> >>>no moderators there, hope you'll be happy >> >>Dear Pete: >>With due respect and friendship, I think you are wrong in this. That kind of >>argument remember me when in my country ruled Pinochet, a dictator, and then >>when somebody complained, rightist people used to say "if you do not like the >>country, go away!". Well, not that there is a dictatorship in CCC, but surely it >>could seems to be IF people that does not like something are invited to go. In >>general I have no problems with post of any kind, from moderators or non >>moderators, about chess computer or off topic, with "dirty" words or without: >>just if something does not please me, I stop reading and let the thread - if >>there is one- without the bleasing of my knowledge. So I do not care if >>moderators begin or not long threads. Sometimes even they are amusing. But I do >>care of the right of anybody here to say he does not like how things are going >>on or asking a new constitutional ground. This is specially truth considering a >>new moderators panel will be chosen in some weeks from now on. You must >>undersratand, Pete, that somebody could like to be here but at the same time >>not to like something. I do not see conflict between both things and so >>unnecesary to invite him to go. >>Cheers >>fernando > > Hi......Fernando, > > I've not posted in awhile for various reasons, but I have contiued to read > posts almost daily. I think the Moderators have actually done a pretty good > job in recent months. In the beginning the current group seemed a little > to quick to hit the delete button for my tastes IMHO. But this is a moderated > forum and heaven knows one man's trash is anothers treasure. So there will > always be friction, controversy and cries of unfair treatment where men/women > (moderators) have to make decisions on what is acceptable behavior. I would > like to take this time to thank the Moderators for their serving this past > year. It is a demandng, thankless job and anyone who thinks he/she wants it > needs to check into the nearest sanitarium......:)This is an important time > for everyone at CCC. I hope everyone does their homework and votes !! > > > TP Hi: Basically I agree with you. My only point is that, at the same time we apreciate the job made by moderators, we must sustain without pain any argument againts his perfomance. I thought Peter was like inviting a guy to go, but he say it was not so, then Its Ok for me now. fernando
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