Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:37:06 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 02:52:26, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>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.
>
>Ban.
>
>>2) Someone complains via moderator email that another member has sent them an
>>email calling them a "prick".
>
>I would tell the person to grow up and learn to handle his own affairs,
I agree but hope you are a _little_ more tactful. :-) I don't think antagonizing
someone who is already feeling somewhat victimized is the way to go about it.
> b/c
>private e-mail is quite obviously not a CCC issue. (Although there may be some
>exceptional cases like spamming or something.)
>
>>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.
>
>Seems on-topic and non-offensive to me. I wouldn't do anything.
>
>>4) Someone consistently posts abusive messages, and it seems to be impossible to
>>get them to stop doing this.
>
>Ban.
>
>>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."
>
>Not a problem. If somebody is offended by reading "shit," they need to learn to
>deal with life better.
I don't agree, and I don't think it has to do with learning to deal with life
better. This isn't to say I never swear (sure I do), but I don't necessarily
want to have to read it here. I'd say this reflected poorly on the author's
vocabulary, and I'd also suggest buying a thesaurus if the author finds they
can't find any reasonable substitute. The English language is _huge_, and there
are _many_ ways of expressing oneself emphatically.
Albert Silver
>
>>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?
>
>9. Exceptions are when the posts are somehow offensive or abusive, or the
>threads simply get too huge.
>
>>2) Are you capable of getting rid of someone who seems to be here to cause
>>trouble?
>
>Yup.
>
>-Tom
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