alex
2015-09-11 10:17:53 UTC
Assuming you have Hal Womack - toting a 3d rank - amongst the members of your club, I am asking you to convince this person to clear up his mind.
He is a shame for the Go/Weiqi community as well as the Dan community.
Could you please explain him to no longer abuse r.g.g. He can spew all his ideas in other places - there are enough channels on the Internet, but rgg ought to remain a _Go_ discussion group, not a group to discuss anti-semitic content. I think most users here will agree. Mind you, I am not condemning his ideas, not trying to gag him, but only criticising the fact that he is using the wrong channels and _knowingly_ disturbing a peaceful (how odd that word may sound nowadays) community (that is most likely very well aware of the issues he is spewing around). We live in a free (part of the) world where anyone can express their ideas, but that doesn't mean we should not follow some basic rules that are accepted in most parts of that world.
Now, because of this kind of behaviour, Usenet is drowning in noise, to the point of extinction, being replaced by ephemeral sites such as godiscussions.com. Because he is hateful and wants to share his hate with the world by any means possible does not mean he has to destroy useful resources. As a simple example, why would we have to waste search resources (energy, disk space, processor power) on such messages that are irrelevant to Go? To me this sounds like an egoistical way to get ideas across.
I tried to contact him via FB but he preferred to discuss matters by email. I think I made my point clear enough, but obviously Hal Womack is "beyond repair". Instead, he chooses to label me as part of his opponents, proving in my case that he is blind, incapable to see just that little bit further, distinguish a few shades. Now I post this message in rgg because this is where the misery (well, it's only ONE thread) is going on. His /voluntary/ removal will not end the flood of spam, but I think we can make a difference by calling extremist Go players to order.
See also
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.go/StNIcfvQZK0/CCjDUaRNEwAJ
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/hal$20womack
thank you,
alexander duytschaever
11k DGS
ps - consider this an academic question. I'm not THAT naive... Hal Womack has been spewing venom for years without anyone intervening. But at least I've tried, and if you are reasonable, you will have done your part. What else can we expect?
He is a shame for the Go/Weiqi community as well as the Dan community.
Could you please explain him to no longer abuse r.g.g. He can spew all his ideas in other places - there are enough channels on the Internet, but rgg ought to remain a _Go_ discussion group, not a group to discuss anti-semitic content. I think most users here will agree. Mind you, I am not condemning his ideas, not trying to gag him, but only criticising the fact that he is using the wrong channels and _knowingly_ disturbing a peaceful (how odd that word may sound nowadays) community (that is most likely very well aware of the issues he is spewing around). We live in a free (part of the) world where anyone can express their ideas, but that doesn't mean we should not follow some basic rules that are accepted in most parts of that world.
Now, because of this kind of behaviour, Usenet is drowning in noise, to the point of extinction, being replaced by ephemeral sites such as godiscussions.com. Because he is hateful and wants to share his hate with the world by any means possible does not mean he has to destroy useful resources. As a simple example, why would we have to waste search resources (energy, disk space, processor power) on such messages that are irrelevant to Go? To me this sounds like an egoistical way to get ideas across.
I tried to contact him via FB but he preferred to discuss matters by email. I think I made my point clear enough, but obviously Hal Womack is "beyond repair". Instead, he chooses to label me as part of his opponents, proving in my case that he is blind, incapable to see just that little bit further, distinguish a few shades. Now I post this message in rgg because this is where the misery (well, it's only ONE thread) is going on. His /voluntary/ removal will not end the flood of spam, but I think we can make a difference by calling extremist Go players to order.
See also
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.go/StNIcfvQZK0/CCjDUaRNEwAJ
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/hal$20womack
thank you,
alexander duytschaever
11k DGS
ps - consider this an academic question. I'm not THAT naive... Hal Womack has been spewing venom for years without anyone intervening. But at least I've tried, and if you are reasonable, you will have done your part. What else can we expect?