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Hi, Abdul-Rahman! Nice to see you, if only in passing. You, our observer,
and Jeremy have all made comments on comments, so I thought I'd move [or
try to move] the conversation about conversation to its own thread. 

It seems this topic comes up every once in a while, in various ways. I've
even discussed it with David Howe, the current senior editor and site owner
[and thus my boss twice over here], and we both basically agree, and agree
with Jeremy, though his statement doesn't go far enough. 

It's true there are many discussions that seem long-winded and boring,
and some of us may even repeat ourselves, and some of us may even repeat
ourselves once in a while. Once in a while. ;-) But if you look/listen
carefully, there are people who agree with George or Charles or Rich or...
On rare occasions, I'm one of them. And I could easily be as bad or worse
an offender. I like writing long, convoluted papers on obscure areas of
variant chess. And so do others.

Should the editors censor the site? I will trim flame wars, but that's
all. I ask that a reply speak to the post and not to the poster. Please
play nice, don't hit your neighbor. That's when I trim. Or if we get way
off topic. This is the chess variants site. An occasional excursion into
lunar orbits or card tricks is fine, but pages of bowling scores, for
example, would be excised. [Or commercials for florists. Oddly, we keep
getting those, disguised as comments on games.]

But opinion about chess? Rambling writing? Boring, repetitive stuff? Gee,
um, look real close at what's in these pages. With all due respect,
there's not a lot of literature in here.  

This site is an open site with a few rules. We cannot censor people or
ideas we don't agree with, or we stifle our site and destoy its
usefulness. Instead, we actively encourage more people to participate. We
have gotten some new and some old [former] people onsite recently, and
that's movement in the right direction. Maorider Chess is by one of them.


Celebrate these people, or ignore them. Enjoy the ones you like. Don't
read the ones you don't like. Or debate them, politely. Please, politely.
But realize that it's up to each of you to join in the conversation.
We're not going to turn you away unless you yourself force us to. 

There is a lot of censorship here, but it's self-censorship. You choose
to not write. Instead, choose to not read the comments by those whose
writings you do not enjoy. But write about things you like, and share them
with those of us who like the same things.