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Subject: Re: brucemo questions for moderator candidates

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 00:24:40 01/26/00

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On January 26, 2000 at 02:45:16, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>I would like to know how the moderator candidates think they might like to
>handle the following situations.
>
>1) Someone nobody has ever heard of creates an obscene post with an obscene
>title, and no other content.

Delete the message and send a warning email.  If it happens again, a ban is
probably necessary.

>2) Someone complains via moderator email that another member has sent them an
>email calling them a "prick".

There's probably not much one can do about that.  CCC moderators can't be email
police...

>3) Someone writes a short post announcing that they've written a new chess
>program, explains that you can get it for $30, and includes a URL to their web
>site.

I guess this somewhat violates the "Are not flagrant commercial exhortations"
part of the charter, but I wouldn't really be too worried about it.  If they
post it several times in several threads, I'd think about doing something.

>4) Someone consistently posts abusive messages, and it seems to be impossible to
>get them to stop doing this.

A vacation would be in order.  If this behavior continues upon their return,
maybe they don't belong here.

>5) Someone complains to you via moderator email about a post that contains a lot
>of content but includes the line, "at this point black blundered with 29. ...
>hxg5 and got the shit kicked out of it."

I know a lot of people are touchy about these things, and I myself would prefer
that it was worded more 'nicely', but I don't think I'd do anything about it.
Everyone has heard all those '4-letter words' before, and it really doesn't hurt
anyone in this context.

>I would like to ask a couple of other questions:
>
>1) On a scale of one to ten, where one is super-tolerant, and ten is completely
>intolerant, how tolerant are you of off-topic posts?

5.  I don't mind the occasional off-topic thread, but I don't want to see them
excessively.

>2) Are you capable of getting rid of someone who seems to be here to cause
>trouble?

Definitely.

Jeremiah



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