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THE USCF WAY -- HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

From: (TOMDORSCH)
Subject: OMOV survey
Date: 1996/05/22
newsgroups: rec.games.chess.politics

The OMOV survey, commissioned in 5/95 to ascertain the wishes of the
membership regarding one-member-one-vote, has been cancelled. The $20K
allocated for the survey will not be spent.

It is now up to the Blue Ribbon Commission to engineer positive
changes in USCF governance.

Regards, Tom Dorsch

I hear that 2 new columns have been announced!

They will be made of marble, and stand at the entrance of ChessHut.

Seriously, if chess fans were to be surveyed, [not just remaining USCF
members] 2 critical things are necessary to establish - one of which is
their rating. Which section of the market [by rating] is responding on what
they would like to read in terms of chess playing content?

The second thing is, for all other subjects, what topics people want.

And of these two, what proportion of what to what?

Should any editor be in possession of this information, he could then design
his columns based on them, and engage capable chess writers to actualy write
the columns.

The current 'method' is backwards - without knowing anything about the
market [s] (pls. note plural) even if some changes were thought necessary
(by whomever, we shall never know) columnists were fired.

Why not survey what columns were desirable, then ask current columnists to
adjust their format to incorporate the new.

Otherwise money spent on new columns would be as well spent holding up the
front portico. At least that keeps the rain off.

Phil Innes

"Grand experiments at the memberships expense is the USCF way. Why use
scientific management methods to focus on success when our leaders can
play craps with our dues money? Let's spend $50,000 and see if our
adult members and associated revenue increase as a result. If it
doesn't work we can always look at doing a poll, but it will probably
cost too much and won't provide the answers we want to hear." -- Wayne
Praeder