On Sep 18, 6:16 am, samsloan wrote:
The shocking news from the new BINFOS is that Bill Hall plans to
eliminate most of the powers of the Forum Oversight Committee or FOC
and Susan Polgar wants to ban entirely about ten miscreants who are
known to criticize her.

Presently, there are three moderators to the forum but only two are
active after one killed himself and the two active forum moderators
were selected because they are the two most notoriously anti-Sam Sloan
members.

However, the FOC is a mixed bag that will often restore posts that
have been deleted by the moderators.

Now, Bill Hall wants to eliminate the power of the FOC to restore
deleted posts and reduce the FOC to a sort of policy board that can
review suspensions but cannot restore deleted posts.

There is a real question of whether Bill Hall has the power and
authority to do this. The FOC was set up and given its powers by the
previous board. Also, the board selects the FOC whereas Bill Hall
choses the moderators. This explains how Bill Hall was able to appoint
two vehemently anti-Sam Sloan moderators.

It would seem to take a vote by the new board, not action by Bill
Hall, to take away the powers of the FOC.

Then, there is Susan Polgar, who simply wants to ban permanently those
who criticize her, such as those who say that she did not win the
Woman's World Championship four times.

Here are their emails to the board:

# From: "Bill Hall" bhall@xxxxxxxxxxx
# Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:41:35 -0500

"We are getting close to restructuring the Forum Governance. Currently
my plans are to provide a disconnect between the Moderators and the
FOC. The Moderator's would be empowered with full moderating authority
and sanctioning capability and the FOC would become a body for
recommending policy changes to the EB and hearing sanction appeals.
There are still a few details to finalize, but we are moving toward
the next step in the experiment."

"Bill Hall"

# From: SusanPolgar@xxxxxxx
# Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:01:25 EDT

We need a prompt system with as little bureaucracy as possible. Once a
system is in place and the trouble makers are properly sanctioned
including permanent banning, there will be no problem with the forum.
99% of the problems are caused by less than 10 people.

Best wishes,
Susan Polgarwww.SusanPolgar.comwww.SusanPolgar.blogspot. comwww.SusanPolgarFoundation.org

perhaps if someone not a USCF member moderated the forums, there would
be no politics as that person would have nothing to gain.