Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 04:28:58 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. > Just ban them. Can't see the point of tolerating that. >2) Someone complains via moderator email that another member has sent them an >email calling them a "prick". > I don't think the moderators should be the referee in disputes conducted outside CCC. >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. No problem with this. > >4) Someone consistently posts abusive messages, and it seems to be impossible to >get them to stop doing this. > Ban them. What's the point of tolerating that? >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." > Hmmm. I don't like the use of that word in forums such as this. But it seems that the word has become pretty common currency in the group, so I don't see much point in my trying to stem the tide. >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? > 8 or 9 I guess. In other words, announcements about general chess issues are fine, long discussions of them are not, in my view. >2) Are you capable of getting rid of someone who seems to be here to cause >trouble? Yes. If they're not contributing anything I'd have no qualms about ditching them. If they are contributing only so they can hang around to make trouble, I'd probably be in favour of ditching them anyway. Andrew
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