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Originally Posted by tsawmiller
IMO, ANY accusations are improper, unless they are
easily and independently verifiable. Just because something
may turn out to be true, doesn't mean that accusations should be
plastered all over the place. THIS forum should be a step above the
other gutter-level forums where the spaghetti bowl of accusations is
allowed to be thrown against the wall to see what sticks.
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Here is an example that Goichberg posted of the kind of posting that
should be banned, not allowed on this forum, and should cause
sanctions to be issued against the poster.
Note that this posting that Goichberg considers to be highly
objectionable does not contain any accusations at all, much less a
"spaghetti bowl" of "gutter level accusations":
The moderators will have to use judgment, and should not take action
if the matter is at all unclear, but here is the kind of thing I have
in mind, which recently happened. The following was posted (I have
put the most important part in bold):
"I personally believe that I could get one million scholastic members
by 2009 (which was my campaign promise) and I would have done that if
I had been elected along with three others who share my vision.
The basic steps of my plan a
1. Get elementary schools to buy blocks of 100 memberships (at a
discount of course).
2. Send bundles of "Chess Life for Kids" magazines to the schools for
distribution to their student members.
3. Teach teachers how to run USCF rated tournaments.
4. Make videos and DVDs of our National Elementary Championships and
send them to the schools for promotional purposes and post them on
youtube.com
These steps, fairly easy to implement, would have brought us a million
members over time in my opinion. I made the above proposals several
times when I was on the board and they were voted down every time.
Instead, the new board has suggested no new ideas. The only thing the
new board had done in the one month that has passed since taking
office is debate on how to bring about "civility" on the USCF Forums
and how to stop any criticism of them."
Sam Sloan