On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Eric Schiller
<chessworks@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
No, I don't use the forum, never will. By I am a regular blogger
at one of the major blogs, DailyKos. You claim there is some rule
about whether moderators can post about abusive posters. I have never
seen such a rule at any blog. So you just made it up. Show me this
"rule".
As usual, even in your legal filings, you assume rules that don't
exist. You make them, up based on how you think the world should be.
Show me this rule!
Eric
Dear Eric,
The Rules most often cited by Vaughn and Sawmiller to delete a posting
or suspend or ban a member are the following:
"Do not make personal attacks or defamatory or disparaging comments
about any person, group or company. Do not flame or troll."
"Do not post suggestions, without specifically identified substantial
proof, that a person may have committed an unethical or criminal act."
"If you refer to someone by name, use their actual name, not a made up
or sarcastic name."
These rules might on the surface seem reasonable but as applied by the
extremely biased moderators gives them the power to delete anything
they want to delete and to suspend anybody they want to suspend.
For example, I started the thread about Grandmaster Benko being
cheated out of $70,000 by Citibank and an obvious scammer named
Wolfgang Roddewig in Brazil. That thread was deleted by Vaughn saying
that I am not allowed to make negative remarks about Wolfgang Roddewig
even though he is not a USCF member, or an American or a chess player.
Nobody is allowed to post that Susan Polgar and Paul Truong stole the
USCFs laptop computer on August 20, 2003 even though they admit that
they took the computer on that date. They claim to have been
authorized to take it "by the board" but when USCF President Beatriz
Marinello at the time said that the board had most definitely not
authorized Polgar and Truong to take that laptop computer, they have
made vague statements about some other unidentified prior board having
authorized this.
The rule about no nicknames came about when Forum posters learned that
they were not allowed to use the word Polgar without uttering words of
high praise in connection with that name. Since they were not allowed
to use the word "Polgar", they started to call her by various
nicknames including "Some.Poor.Soul", "The Name that One Dare Not
Speak", "Chairman Susan" and various others. Of course, the word
Trollgar was banned too.
This is by no means a comprehensive list. Basically, being opposed to
the election of Polgar and Truong or even disagreeing with them on one
minor point got you suspended from posting.
Sam Sloan
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