Speaking of snafus, perhaps dear <chessgames.com> could explain how exactly this:

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<CG> I just posted the following at Mikhail Markovich Umansky and I wanted to inform you, as well with the question whether you - or anyone else here - can either confirm or deny the following:

<It seems that mister Umanksy has passed away last Friday due to a Cardiovascular disease. Perhaps someone can confirm or deny it but the original German source looks rather trustworthy: http://www.schachverbandschwaben.de... >

http://www.miumansky.com/

May I respectfully request a Large size CG T-shirt instead of "Mastering Positional Chess" ? I already have that book in my library.

Excuse me for posting this here, against the explicit wishes of you and your administrative associates, but forgive me for treating this as a matter of public urgency.

This post here is a problem for the health of this website:

<Dec-21-10
playground player: <cormier> We're going to need that armor. The United States Congress has declared God's law subordinate to the ambitions of <<<Big Sodomy>>>. I would not dare to pray for the USA now: only for the Christian people who have had their country stolen out from under them. >

It is a public condemnation of homosexuality at chessgames.com.

This is not only EXPLICITLY against any number of your own posting guidelines- being woefully off topic, mainly- it's also a fantastically insulting attack on the several openly gay members of this website.

For all you know, I am a gay person.

I demand that <playground player>'s post be deleted, and I further demand that he receive a personal admomnition and warning from the administration.

playground player chessforum

You tell us that our forums cannot be run as personal blogs, that they must be chess related.

Please enforce that= particularly when a member sees fit to use his/her forum as a PERSONAL FUNDAMENTALIST RELIGIOUS BLOG in order to spread the most heinous form of personal attack against other members here, under the guise of "personal religious belief."

Are you going to allow this CHESS website to become a RELIGIOUS SOAPBOX?

Please don't. The non-fundamentalist Christian members at this site have bent over backwards to be respectful and tolerant to those members who *are* fundamentalist Christians.

Sometimes too much tolerance is not good.

This is one of those times.

Merry Christmas

If I were to make racist or sexist comments about women or asians or methodists or christians, that would be stopped. Thus, attacks against homosexuals should not be tolerated.

Not wanting to engage in this too much, as little as possible, just a few things to consider:

The emotions in this can surely be led back to, or viewed also in, context of the ID-Science-Creation debate earlier this year; maybe I am reaching, but at least I assure you it is of a potentially toxic nature.

I've been up-close and personal and suffering (in a relative sense; it's all rather harmless one normally says).

And of course <proportionality> and "personal attacks" is an ongoing unavoidable issue at the Rogoff page, which I have rarely visited lately.

My advice is to not participate in- and condemn- this "moral" crusade. Do address the <way in which> it is conducted. There are a few more subtleties that play into this, and you can read detailed about those at <playground player> chessforum (which I urge you to read).

Remember... <proportionality> - I know how difficult it is - so good luck and wisdom with whatever it is you deem appropriate.