On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Eric Schiller
<chessworks@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
What is best about the Trusted Users at Kos is that it is not
selected by politicians. There is an automated system that is very
hard to hack. The system keeps track of how your posts are received
and your activity, and awards TU when you have enough positive =93mojo=94.
You lose mojo when others recommend your comment be hidden. But it is
about the comment, not the poster. You must not recommend hiding just
because you dislike the author. That is the responsibility of TUs. TU
status comes and goes. I usually have it but if I don=92t do a good
diary regularly I lose it for a bit, then regain it.
So, if someone with TU status regularly recommended hiding your
comments, they would lose TU status automatically.
It is an amazingly good system, built in response to user
comments. I don=92t get any sense of =93community=94 at USCF forums.
=93Kosmopolitans=94 (Or =93Kossacks=94) take it seriously and when things
ar=
e
wrong, diarists weigh in.
Kos has about 200,000 members and a huge daily reader****p. It is
among the top 4000 websites in the world.
Eric
Thank you again. We have an applicable situation. John Hillery of Los
Angeles attacks every single thing that I write. He has been doing
this for about the past five years. He is doing this again today on
this thread.
His case is a little different than that of people like Herbert Vaughn
and Gregory Alexander. Hillery does not attack me because he favors
another candidate. He does not like Polgar and Truong very much
either, although he does not attack them openly very often.
There should be some mechanism to slow down or control someone who
always just attacks something because of who wrote it rather than what
it says.
Sounds like you have actually been reading the Forum although you
never post there.
The immediate issue is that Bill Hall virtually waved a red flag in
front of a bull or put up a target sign saying "sue me" when he
allowed Herbert Rodney Vaughn to camp out in the USCF's office in
Crossville Tennessee for a week putting together a 400 page Ethics
Complaint with color copies against me and then made this same person
a moderator of the USCF Issues Forum knowing that his entire purpose
in wanting to be a moderator was to remove my postings.
Bill Hall obviously has extremely poor judgment in doing all this plus
the board has extremely poor judgment in keeping Bill Hall as
executive director, especially when the fiscal year is about to end on
May 30 and the USCF will have experienced another loss of about
$300,000.
Sam Sloan
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