The following members have been nominated to serve on the moderation team for the Computer Chess Club:
Name and Status (A=accepted, D=declined):
Graham Banks (D)
Clare Marie Benedicto (A)
Ryan Benitez (D)
Uri Blass
Steve Blincoe
Enrico Carrisco
Dann Corbit
Nicolai Czempin
Thorsten Czub (A)
Eelco de Groot (D)
Mircea Hrubaru (D)
Pradu Kannan (D)
Thomas Mayer
Ulysses P (A)
Ilari Pihlajisto
Werner Schüle (D)
Albert Silver
Ted Summers (D)
Swaminathan (A)
Tony Thomas (A)
George Tsavdaris
Heinz van Kempen
Zach Wegner (A)
Chris Whittington (A)
Nominees should PM or e-mail their decision to accept or decline to the admin no later than May 21. Nominees who do not respond by the deadline will be assumed to have declined. Those who accept nomination may post a short self-description and moderation philosophy as a reply to this announcement (no other posts in this thread, please).
** CCC Moderator Nominee Information **
Moderator: Ras
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swami
- Posts: 6664
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Re: ** CCC Moderator Nominee Information **
Hi All,
I’ll make my moderation philosophy simple to address the key points. I have had two job offers in middle of pursuing my MBA, So I had declined to join one of the IIM’s which I had hoped to. I don’t have much of a plan to continue playing chess, so I almost stopped playing, both on the server and real life tournaments.
Been active in computer chess since 1999. Don't own any kind of chess computers.Registered in Talkchess around 2002.
I play against engines occasionally(and eventually get defeated most of the time
) and I conduct tourneys and I have my own web page where I post results, group of members participate in my Engine Prediction Contest in tournament and matches section.
Apart from chess, I like playing Quake LAN Party, Football, watching movies, reading books, listening to music, cricket, themepark, snow bowling, walking, cycling, shopping.
Moderation Philosophy:
[Report Posts and Complaints]
-A single Moderator do not usually read all the posts in every single thread, so please don’t expect the mods to delete post they haven’t even read, in most cases, I would read every single comp chess threads and I'd be well aware of what's going on, but in rare cases like If I'm away for sometime, don't forget to report posts. If mods happen to read a post that is clearly against the charter, they could delete it in absence of any complain reports. Sometimes mods operate based on complaint reports sent, there are reports for mods to get busy with everyday.
-I don't support editing a post in threads .However, If a member writes some long post that has some insulting statement, then I will copy paste his post in a pm and send it to him, and explain it to him why it was deleted, If I get time, and that would save him(and our) time and would give him the benefit of editing the insulting parts himself, before he starts shouting over at moderators and whining in the forum that his messages were deleted.
- I advocate hands on moderation.
-I will make sure that members follow the rules and don't violate the charter, if I receive complaints, then I will look into it and evaluate, if the message posted is offensive or if it contain something that violates the charter, then it will be swiftly removed, and I will notify the member by sending him a pm if I get time.
[Spam Deletion]
- If the stuffs posted are in no way related to computer chess, it’d be deleted. I do allow Off topic posts occasionally.
- If the post is advertisement, an offer to buy something, I’d talk about it with fellow mods to see if the post is genuine, repeated advertisement to buy a chess program is not allowed.
- I vote to delete spam clone engines links.
- I don't allow porn talks or content as some of it had been posted in the past, Think of some young kid visiting talkchess. I would just delete it immediately when it appears in a sub thread or a thread.
[About Warning/Ban]
-In rare cases, if a member keeps repeating stuffs that mods have advised not to, then I’d discuss it with fellow mods and we give a formal warning and ask him to refrain from posting it, first an advice, then a warning, and if violated, would result in a short ban.
-I will make sure that all the newbies are treated properly and I will also make sure they get the fair share and are welcomed by seniors even if they ask too much innocent questions. If they are not treated well, then I would just write some private message to those who offend the newbie. If the newbie is behaving like a troll whose intention was to register and cause nuisance, then he will be given warnings just like how we deal this with normal members in case of nuisance, if he continues to do the same thing warnings again then later short ban after discussing with moderators, I will accept it only if they propose. Banning a member is a last resort.
[Locking/Deleting a Thread]
I don’t support editing the post. Thread should be locked in case of abusive flame wars erupting in the middle half of big thread, where all party involved are taking potshots at each other with no content whatsoever. If most of the messages in a thread are full of personal attacks, then I would support deleting the whole thread.
I would like to thank those who nominated me, and also I would like to extend my thanks to previous term moderator counterparts, and I wish other candidates the best in the election
Regards.
Swaminathan
I’ll make my moderation philosophy simple to address the key points. I have had two job offers in middle of pursuing my MBA, So I had declined to join one of the IIM’s which I had hoped to. I don’t have much of a plan to continue playing chess, so I almost stopped playing, both on the server and real life tournaments.
Been active in computer chess since 1999. Don't own any kind of chess computers.Registered in Talkchess around 2002.
I play against engines occasionally(and eventually get defeated most of the time
) and I conduct tourneys and I have my own web page where I post results, group of members participate in my Engine Prediction Contest in tournament and matches section.Apart from chess, I like playing Quake LAN Party, Football, watching movies, reading books, listening to music, cricket, themepark, snow bowling, walking, cycling, shopping.
Moderation Philosophy:
[Report Posts and Complaints]
-A single Moderator do not usually read all the posts in every single thread, so please don’t expect the mods to delete post they haven’t even read, in most cases, I would read every single comp chess threads and I'd be well aware of what's going on, but in rare cases like If I'm away for sometime, don't forget to report posts. If mods happen to read a post that is clearly against the charter, they could delete it in absence of any complain reports. Sometimes mods operate based on complaint reports sent, there are reports for mods to get busy with everyday.
-I don't support editing a post in threads .However, If a member writes some long post that has some insulting statement, then I will copy paste his post in a pm and send it to him, and explain it to him why it was deleted, If I get time, and that would save him(and our) time and would give him the benefit of editing the insulting parts himself, before he starts shouting over at moderators and whining in the forum that his messages were deleted.
- I advocate hands on moderation.
-I will make sure that members follow the rules and don't violate the charter, if I receive complaints, then I will look into it and evaluate, if the message posted is offensive or if it contain something that violates the charter, then it will be swiftly removed, and I will notify the member by sending him a pm if I get time.
[Spam Deletion]
- If the stuffs posted are in no way related to computer chess, it’d be deleted. I do allow Off topic posts occasionally.
- If the post is advertisement, an offer to buy something, I’d talk about it with fellow mods to see if the post is genuine, repeated advertisement to buy a chess program is not allowed.
- I vote to delete spam clone engines links.
- I don't allow porn talks or content as some of it had been posted in the past, Think of some young kid visiting talkchess. I would just delete it immediately when it appears in a sub thread or a thread.
[About Warning/Ban]
-In rare cases, if a member keeps repeating stuffs that mods have advised not to, then I’d discuss it with fellow mods and we give a formal warning and ask him to refrain from posting it, first an advice, then a warning, and if violated, would result in a short ban.
-I will make sure that all the newbies are treated properly and I will also make sure they get the fair share and are welcomed by seniors even if they ask too much innocent questions. If they are not treated well, then I would just write some private message to those who offend the newbie. If the newbie is behaving like a troll whose intention was to register and cause nuisance, then he will be given warnings just like how we deal this with normal members in case of nuisance, if he continues to do the same thing warnings again then later short ban after discussing with moderators, I will accept it only if they propose. Banning a member is a last resort.
[Locking/Deleting a Thread]
I don’t support editing the post. Thread should be locked in case of abusive flame wars erupting in the middle half of big thread, where all party involved are taking potshots at each other with no content whatsoever. If most of the messages in a thread are full of personal attacks, then I would support deleting the whole thread.
I would like to thank those who nominated me, and also I would like to extend my thanks to previous term moderator counterparts, and I wish other candidates the best in the election
Regards.
Swaminathan
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chrisw
Re: ** CCC Moderator Nominee Information **
Firstly a thank you to whoever nominated me. I wish all candidates good luck and best wishes for a reasoned and peaceful election campaign.
Moderation Philosophy
I wrote the CCC Charter in 1997 and by cut 'n paste the CTF Charter. My overall moderation philosophy is that moderators are not above members, no more important than members, nor any kind of political gods. The sole task of moderators is to enforce the Charter and police the forums. Reinterpretation or modification of the Charter is not a moderator role, the Charter has stood the test of time and works.
The CCC boards are fairly peaceful, I would listen carefully to the outgoing moderators advice and learn from them.
CCC could do with some more good members especially from the programming community so I would endeavour to keep everything as inclusive as possible. If elected, my first act would be to try and persuade Ed Schroeder and Thorsten Czub to return, after all is said and done, both are old friends of mine.
I would not lay down any hard and fast operational rules. I don't think it sensible to telegraph the number of times someone can be abusive or off-topic before sanctions are applied. Miscreants know perfectly well the rules of posting and I don't propose to help them out with specific details of how far they can go before anything happens.
In the past I was opposed to the splitting of the main board but history has proven this was a correct thing to do. Off-topic arguments/discussions should be on CTF.
If anything even remotely like the sort of unacceptable and gratuitous behaviour that occurs on CTF were to appear on CCC then moderator reaction should be swift and brutal.
Bob Hyatt used absolutely correct and unassailable reasoning when he stated that moderator-editing of posts was completely unacceptable. Delete it or leave it only.
I find it very important that moderators should not side with any particular party, Robin Smith on CTF has, in my opinion, in this moderation period, shown very well how to stay neutral.
If I do or post something dumb or against the Charter I won't hesitate to ban myself.
Personal History
I'm fifty-eight years old, married with five grown-up children. When teaching Chemistry and Sciences at Secondary level in schools in London I became interested in electronics and computing and enrolled with the Open University taking modules in technology, materials, computing, maths, electronics, telecommunications and so on.
In the early eighties I quit teaching and started the business later known as Oxford Softworks. Because I started in the very early days, many programmers offered their engines under licence, so we were able to build as both an engine and a publishing company. The business was always profitable although there were some lean years. As time went by OS built a range of publishing and sales contacts throughout the world, France, Germany, the USA and latterly Japan. I wrote the engine for Chess System Tal and was the ideas person behind new products. The company was sold in 2000 to a venture capitalist backed group.
We moved to a smallholding in Worcestershire and kept pigs, cows, sheep, chickens and even a few alpacas. Looking after animals is a great experience and I can say I am truly grateful to them, especially the pigs, for all they taught me. A great enrichment to my life.
Now that the children are grown-up, we are in the process of selling everything in England and moving to France where I will set up another small holding while my wife will create an artists space.
In UK politics I helped set up the Worcestershire branch of the Tax Payers Alliance a couple of weeks ago and I was re-elected for the third year running last week as Chairman of the Parish Council (this is a bit sad, say my children, I think I agree).
In late sixties / early seventies I played a lot of chess reaching a grade of BCF 219 which, confusingly, allegedly maps to either 2350 ELO or 2400 ELO depending on calculation method, the phase of the moon and which country one is standing in at the time but right now I am a bit of a patzer, although I started playing again a couple of years ago, persuaded by youngest son James who is quite a strong player himself now, playing some correspondence games on the ChessNet server.
I was the main drive and energy behind the creation of the CCC forum in 1997. I like to think I am older and wiser now, since those days.
Good luck to all other candidates.
Moderation Philosophy
I wrote the CCC Charter in 1997 and by cut 'n paste the CTF Charter. My overall moderation philosophy is that moderators are not above members, no more important than members, nor any kind of political gods. The sole task of moderators is to enforce the Charter and police the forums. Reinterpretation or modification of the Charter is not a moderator role, the Charter has stood the test of time and works.
The CCC boards are fairly peaceful, I would listen carefully to the outgoing moderators advice and learn from them.
CCC could do with some more good members especially from the programming community so I would endeavour to keep everything as inclusive as possible. If elected, my first act would be to try and persuade Ed Schroeder and Thorsten Czub to return, after all is said and done, both are old friends of mine.
I would not lay down any hard and fast operational rules. I don't think it sensible to telegraph the number of times someone can be abusive or off-topic before sanctions are applied. Miscreants know perfectly well the rules of posting and I don't propose to help them out with specific details of how far they can go before anything happens.
In the past I was opposed to the splitting of the main board but history has proven this was a correct thing to do. Off-topic arguments/discussions should be on CTF.
If anything even remotely like the sort of unacceptable and gratuitous behaviour that occurs on CTF were to appear on CCC then moderator reaction should be swift and brutal.
Bob Hyatt used absolutely correct and unassailable reasoning when he stated that moderator-editing of posts was completely unacceptable. Delete it or leave it only.
I find it very important that moderators should not side with any particular party, Robin Smith on CTF has, in my opinion, in this moderation period, shown very well how to stay neutral.
If I do or post something dumb or against the Charter I won't hesitate to ban myself.
Personal History
I'm fifty-eight years old, married with five grown-up children. When teaching Chemistry and Sciences at Secondary level in schools in London I became interested in electronics and computing and enrolled with the Open University taking modules in technology, materials, computing, maths, electronics, telecommunications and so on.
In the early eighties I quit teaching and started the business later known as Oxford Softworks. Because I started in the very early days, many programmers offered their engines under licence, so we were able to build as both an engine and a publishing company. The business was always profitable although there were some lean years. As time went by OS built a range of publishing and sales contacts throughout the world, France, Germany, the USA and latterly Japan. I wrote the engine for Chess System Tal and was the ideas person behind new products. The company was sold in 2000 to a venture capitalist backed group.
We moved to a smallholding in Worcestershire and kept pigs, cows, sheep, chickens and even a few alpacas. Looking after animals is a great experience and I can say I am truly grateful to them, especially the pigs, for all they taught me. A great enrichment to my life.
Now that the children are grown-up, we are in the process of selling everything in England and moving to France where I will set up another small holding while my wife will create an artists space.
In UK politics I helped set up the Worcestershire branch of the Tax Payers Alliance a couple of weeks ago and I was re-elected for the third year running last week as Chairman of the Parish Council (this is a bit sad, say my children, I think I agree).
In late sixties / early seventies I played a lot of chess reaching a grade of BCF 219 which, confusingly, allegedly maps to either 2350 ELO or 2400 ELO depending on calculation method, the phase of the moon and which country one is standing in at the time but right now I am a bit of a patzer, although I started playing again a couple of years ago, persuaded by youngest son James who is quite a strong player himself now, playing some correspondence games on the ChessNet server.
I was the main drive and energy behind the creation of the CCC forum in 1997. I like to think I am older and wiser now, since those days.
Good luck to all other candidates.
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Tony Thomas
Re: ** CCC Moderator Nominee Information **
Hey fellow computer chess freaks,
I decided to accept my nomination after a lot of pondering, symmetric multi processing, looking through material imbalance tables and late move reductions..
I was nominated by none other than the master analyst himself, Elco De Groot. I had initially told him that I wont be running, because I wasnt interested in being a mod..Now after seeing that the voters doesnt have many candidates to chose from like the previous elections I have decided to join the race. Fair competition is the heart and soul of democracy in my view. I really dont like to give false promises like most politicians do so I will keep my moderation philosophy short and simple.
My Moderation Philosophy
I promise to uphold and interpret the rules to the best of my ability, I promise to be fair, I also promise that I wont violate any of the rules myself.
About Me
I am 26 years old, I am a Senior at GA state university, majoring in Biology with a minor in Chemistry. I havent been to college the last two semesters so you can call me a drop-out until I go back. I am an assistant manager at Rite-Aid pharmacy and my main hobby as you can guess is computer chess. I could rightfully claim that I am one of those few people who has played (atleast 20 games) with more than 350/430+ of the engines that are currently available, and I plan to play with them all eventually. I am a patzer when it comes to OTB play, but on my good day I can defeat NEG, POS, Golem, CCP1, Numpty and engines in that strength range. As you can tell from most of my posts, I do not mind people joking around with each other.
I wish best of luck to all candidates, and I hope you all vote wisely..
May Goat Bless you
Tony
I call on all members of American Goat Coalition to vote for me, the founder of the club. Oh wait, me and Michael Sherwin are the only members, I must call the sheep, horse and dog Coalitions as well.
I decided to accept my nomination after a lot of pondering, symmetric multi processing, looking through material imbalance tables and late move reductions..
I was nominated by none other than the master analyst himself, Elco De Groot. I had initially told him that I wont be running, because I wasnt interested in being a mod..Now after seeing that the voters doesnt have many candidates to chose from like the previous elections I have decided to join the race. Fair competition is the heart and soul of democracy in my view. I really dont like to give false promises like most politicians do so I will keep my moderation philosophy short and simple. My Moderation Philosophy
I promise to uphold and interpret the rules to the best of my ability, I promise to be fair, I also promise that I wont violate any of the rules myself.
About Me
I am 26 years old, I am a Senior at GA state university, majoring in Biology with a minor in Chemistry. I havent been to college the last two semesters so you can call me a drop-out until I go back. I am an assistant manager at Rite-Aid pharmacy and my main hobby as you can guess is computer chess. I could rightfully claim that I am one of those few people who has played (atleast 20 games) with more than 350/430+ of the engines that are currently available, and I plan to play with them all eventually. I am a patzer when it comes to OTB play, but on my good day I can defeat NEG, POS, Golem, CCP1, Numpty and engines in that strength range. As you can tell from most of my posts, I do not mind people joking around with each other.
I wish best of luck to all candidates, and I hope you all vote wisely..
May Goat Bless you
Tony
I call on all members of American Goat Coalition to vote for me, the founder of the club. Oh wait, me and Michael Sherwin are the only members, I must call the sheep, horse and dog Coalitions as well.
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mclane
- Posts: 18956
- Joined: Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:40 pm
- Location: US of Europe, germany
- Full name: Thorsten Czub
Re: ** CCC Moderator Nominee Information **
my name is Thorsten Czub.
I am 41 and i am with my girl friend
living in the ruhr area of germany. we have a little
son, nearly 3 years old.
another hobby of mine is driving citroen cars (french car company).
i am doing computerchess since 1978 when i was playing in a
chess club with my friends.
in those years we were all fascinated in doing computerchess.
later i became a writer for the german computerchess magazine
"Computerschach & Spiele".
I had a computerchess department alone for myself
called "schachcomputerwelt". in 1996 i worked in one of the
biggest computerchess companies here in germany doing
hotline and service jobs for Saitek.
i worked with programmers and tried to help them doing progress with
their chess prg / computer.
i met many computerchess enthusiasts all over the world (in net and real life) and
it was a great fun doing so. We met at the AEGON tournaments
in the hague or we met on computerchess world championships
or at the paderborn tournament. friendship is something
very important and our hobby made it possible to share friendship.
in the 90ies i worked e.g. with chris whittington on ChessSystemTal.
IMO computerchess never "ends". the goal was IMO never to beat humans.
that happened en passant in the history of computerchess.
the goal always was to beat the competitors and their programs.
to make the programs better, no matter WHICH program is leading or dominating.
so there is always a paradigm change and it takes a while until the
best chess programs get beaten by newcomers or competitors.
IMO computerchess is a vehicle for social interactions.
chess alone cannot give the same content because while doing a chess game
the players do not talk OPEN about their chances and the position and their plans.
in computerchess the humans can look into the search process and the plans
and evaluations and therefore computerchess transports more content than
human chess.
together with a group of other enthusiasts we founded CCC when the
newsgroup RGCC was not any longer useful for exchanging ideas due to
many "noise" done by a few people appearing there.
Our idea was to have a democratic moderated forum where programmers
can post their ideas and point of views without getting attacked
by others.
we fought for this goal.
those were the ideals of our group, written into the charter of the club.
its still in the charter of this club.
Moderation philosophy:
remembering the situation in RGCC and the reason we founded this club, i would
make sure that people will not be able to throw mud on others and repeat history.
a heated discussion is ONE thing, but throwing mud on others for no other reason
but continuing a long time vendetta, stalking not be allowed.
i would not allow trolling, mostly this happens when "famous"
people appear.
i would not allow spamming or advertisments. Of course discussions
about new computerchess products would be allowed.
if a thread is to heated i would lock it.
people would get yellow and red cards before they get banning times.
of course bans can only be done in agreement with the other moderators.
no clone links are allowed and discussions about illegal clones are IMO contraproductive.
I am 41 and i am with my girl friend
living in the ruhr area of germany. we have a little
son, nearly 3 years old.
another hobby of mine is driving citroen cars (french car company).
i am doing computerchess since 1978 when i was playing in a
chess club with my friends.
in those years we were all fascinated in doing computerchess.
later i became a writer for the german computerchess magazine
"Computerschach & Spiele".
I had a computerchess department alone for myself
called "schachcomputerwelt". in 1996 i worked in one of the
biggest computerchess companies here in germany doing
hotline and service jobs for Saitek.
i worked with programmers and tried to help them doing progress with
their chess prg / computer.
i met many computerchess enthusiasts all over the world (in net and real life) and
it was a great fun doing so. We met at the AEGON tournaments
in the hague or we met on computerchess world championships
or at the paderborn tournament. friendship is something
very important and our hobby made it possible to share friendship.
in the 90ies i worked e.g. with chris whittington on ChessSystemTal.
IMO computerchess never "ends". the goal was IMO never to beat humans.
that happened en passant in the history of computerchess.
the goal always was to beat the competitors and their programs.
to make the programs better, no matter WHICH program is leading or dominating.
so there is always a paradigm change and it takes a while until the
best chess programs get beaten by newcomers or competitors.
IMO computerchess is a vehicle for social interactions.
chess alone cannot give the same content because while doing a chess game
the players do not talk OPEN about their chances and the position and their plans.
in computerchess the humans can look into the search process and the plans
and evaluations and therefore computerchess transports more content than
human chess.
together with a group of other enthusiasts we founded CCC when the
newsgroup RGCC was not any longer useful for exchanging ideas due to
many "noise" done by a few people appearing there.
Our idea was to have a democratic moderated forum where programmers
can post their ideas and point of views without getting attacked
by others.
we fought for this goal.
those were the ideals of our group, written into the charter of the club.
its still in the charter of this club.
Moderation philosophy:
remembering the situation in RGCC and the reason we founded this club, i would
make sure that people will not be able to throw mud on others and repeat history.
a heated discussion is ONE thing, but throwing mud on others for no other reason
but continuing a long time vendetta, stalking not be allowed.
i would not allow trolling, mostly this happens when "famous"
people appear.
i would not allow spamming or advertisments. Of course discussions
about new computerchess products would be allowed.
if a thread is to heated i would lock it.
people would get yellow and red cards before they get banning times.
of course bans can only be done in agreement with the other moderators.
no clone links are allowed and discussions about illegal clones are IMO contraproductive.
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Zach Wegner
- Posts: 1922
- Joined: Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:51 am
- Location: Earth
Re: ** CCC Moderator Nominee Information **
I was planning on declining this, but a respected member here told me that he would really like to see me run. I have a soft spot for stuff like that, so I am "doing a favor" for the board.
I am 20 years old. I live in Austin, TX, USA. I have been a CCC member since 2002, as well as a chess programmer. I am the author of ZCT (Zach's Chess Test), which is open source.
My moderation philosophy:
0) I am going to be pretty busy this summer. I am going to be working part time, doing a Google Summer of Code project, taking a class, working on ZCT and all the other weird projects I have in my brain, reading, listening to music, and just having fun. I'm a kid and it's summer. I also have little willpower (that's why I'm running), and I will likely spend too much time here. So all of the trouble you guys cause will take away from my real responsibilities of working, GSOC, and school. Be nice!
1) I think I can work well as a team with any other moderator.
2) I don't know if I could be completely impartial, but I don't think it will be a problem. When serving a public function like this I am usually good about hiding opinions.
3) I think moderators should have little visibility when moderating. I don't like editing posts or locking threads. I don't really like public warnings, unless it is targeted to a group of people (e.g. in flamewars).
4) Moderators should have no special privileges other that deleting posts/threads and banning members. Banning must be a unanimous decision. I think moderators should be treated just like normal members.
5) I think ICD should have _absolutely_ no influence on the board. The members are the owners of the group. I am not in favor of charter amendments, but...
6) I am fine with a TCAdmin weeding out accounts, but their identity and actions should be public knowledge.
7) I have no problems with aliases in general. However, their use should be restrained. I propose:
a) Only one account per person.
b) No misleading names, i.e. of a famous person or another member.
c) The real name should be public knowledge, unless the member presents a valid reason to moderators.
8) In the unlikely event of another member revolution, I propose that there is a complete reelection.
9) Yes, I copied and pasted most of this from my post in last election's thread, which itself was a copy+paste from another thread.
I am 20 years old. I live in Austin, TX, USA. I have been a CCC member since 2002, as well as a chess programmer. I am the author of ZCT (Zach's Chess Test), which is open source.
My moderation philosophy:
0) I am going to be pretty busy this summer. I am going to be working part time, doing a Google Summer of Code project, taking a class, working on ZCT and all the other weird projects I have in my brain, reading, listening to music, and just having fun. I'm a kid and it's summer. I also have little willpower (that's why I'm running), and I will likely spend too much time here. So all of the trouble you guys cause will take away from my real responsibilities of working, GSOC, and school. Be nice!
1) I think I can work well as a team with any other moderator.
2) I don't know if I could be completely impartial, but I don't think it will be a problem. When serving a public function like this I am usually good about hiding opinions.
3) I think moderators should have little visibility when moderating. I don't like editing posts or locking threads. I don't really like public warnings, unless it is targeted to a group of people (e.g. in flamewars).
4) Moderators should have no special privileges other that deleting posts/threads and banning members. Banning must be a unanimous decision. I think moderators should be treated just like normal members.
5) I think ICD should have _absolutely_ no influence on the board. The members are the owners of the group. I am not in favor of charter amendments, but...
6) I am fine with a TCAdmin weeding out accounts, but their identity and actions should be public knowledge.
7) I have no problems with aliases in general. However, their use should be restrained. I propose:
a) Only one account per person.
b) No misleading names, i.e. of a famous person or another member.
c) The real name should be public knowledge, unless the member presents a valid reason to moderators.
8) In the unlikely event of another member revolution, I propose that there is a complete reelection.
9) Yes, I copied and pasted most of this from my post in last election's thread, which itself was a copy+paste from another thread.
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mariaclara
- Posts: 4186
- Joined: Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:31 pm
- Location: Sulu Sea
Re: ** CCC Moderator Nominee Information **
Hi everybody..
May I offer my humble experience as a " moderation" in my work for the benefit of all CCC/CTF member.
As everyone knows, moderation here in our TalkChess.com involves a very delicate harmonizing and encouraging members to engage in a "win-win" situation over that of adversarial relations.
We are Chess enthusiasts who have varying opinions, comments, beliefs, molded through time from our childhood by our parents/siblings/family. later on by our teachers, and finally - by mass media and our environment. (newspapers, books, magazines, gadgets, tv, radio, internet, friends, acquaintances, etc.)
Having said that, it is apparent although, we have our Charter, there is no "norm" which will satisfy one and all here in CCC/CTF. It will be the fluid/smooth meeting/mutual understanding of people which will determine our harmonious and learning experience here.
Perhaps my wonderful work here in this private resort will enable me to be a resilient/kind/understanding but firm moderator.
(my work allowed me to meet people from all walks of life. From politicians, bankers, businessmen, engineers, military, specialists in the Information Technology, educators and so on. )
All the people I met helped me absorb many bruising lessons tempered by their heated discussions and hot exchange of words. Thus, I feel, as moderator, we can all have a wonderful time enjoying our computer chess hobby, while learning here .
Hoping to be of assistance to you all,
thanks and regards
clare marie benedicto
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