Merry Christmas to you and <Lars>!

Your timely post felt like a Christmas present.

Can't be bad. Literally.

First of all, there is a kind of double standard when it comes to religious opinions. Let me explain:

Strange as it sounds, the Bible itself does not wholly conform to Chessgames posting policies. A person can selectively quote scripture with the effect of offending women, blacks, jews, "heathens", and of course homosexuals.

And yet, we don't think we're going out on a limb to regard the Bible as the most important book in human history. That's not an endorsement of any religion, just an opinion based on the events that transpired on this planet during the past 2000 years. As such, the Bible is something of which all educated people should be familiar.

Therein lies the peculiar dilemma. On one hand, a person can selectively quote scripture and be quite offensive to various groups. On the other hand, it would be Orwellian to the extreme if it was our policy to ban the Bible on Chessgames.

Now <playground player> did not quote scripture per se, but his opinions are clearly derived from the Bible and I imagine he would be proud to say so. What seems to be specifically offensive to some is a certain play on words stemming from Bible terminology.

From what we can tell, playground player confined his postings on this subject to his chessforum and perhaps a few other chessforums. That's not to say that makes it permissible, for our rules specifically say <[A chessforum is] not a blog where you are free to discuss anything you like. It's not a political soapbox.> However, it's far better than he confines his opinions to his chessforum than on the Kibitzer's Cafe or some random player page.

Ironically, those who were offended by his words have now disseminated it to other parts of the website where they are receiving far more attention than if nothing was said about it.

Nothing above answers the question of what to do, it's just a a statement of facts as we see them. No posts have been deleted (not by us, anyhow) at this time.

Have you thought about putting together a <History of the Women's World Championship>?

And in the long term - probably the very long term - maybe the other championships, eg. Junior (U20), Girls (U20), Seniors, Youth (by age), FischerRandom, Rapid and Blindfold?

One advantage of following the age championship would be picking up the early games of future stars.

Maybe the broader group might not be worth the return for the effort, but the Women's title would be useful and interesting.

<Dom: So change the Bible. Can't be *that* difficult, can it? It's been done hundreds of times before.>

MISTER DANIEL FREEMAN
Hey, Mister Daniel Freeman, won't you post a clue for me

I'm not sleepy and there is no site I'd rather be

Hey, Mister Daniel Freeman, won't you post a clue for me

In the jingle jangle morning, I'll come a-googling you

Though I know that evenin’s prize has disappeared in the wind

Right before I hit “send”

Left me blindly here to amend but still not sleeping

My weariness amazes me, I’m branded on my feet

I have no one to meet

And the ancient empty fora are too dead for posting

Hey, Mister Daniel Freeman, won't you post a clue for me

I'm not sleepy and there is no site I'd rather be

Hey, Mister Daniel Freeman, won't you post a clue for me

In the jingle jangle morning, I'll come a-googling you

Take me on a flight on your magic surfing site

My senses are alight, this new idea just might

Be the one that's right

I'm ready to search anywhere, anywhere you bade

I have my cyber-spade, cast your ambiguous clue you made

I promise to dig into it

Hey, Mister Daniel Freeman, won't you post a clue for me

I'm not sleepy and there is no site I'd rather be

Hey, Mister Daniel Freeman, won't you post a clue for me

In the jingle jangle morning, I'll come a-googling you

Though you might hear laughin’, spinnin’, swingin’ madly across the site

It’s not aimed at any tyke, it’s just escapin’ on the byte

And but for the sky there are no fences facin’

And if you hear vague traces of skippin’ reels of rhyme

To your misleading clues in time, it’s just a ragged clown behind

I wouldn’t pay it any mind

It’s just a herring you’re seein’ that he’s chasing

Hey, Mister Daniel Freeman, won't you post a clue for me

I'm not sleepy and there is no site I'd rather be

Hey, Mister Daniel Freeman, won't you post a clue for me

In the jingle jangle morning, I'll come a-googling you

Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind

Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the forlorn games

The haunted, frightened names, out beyond Wiki's reach

Far from the twisted beseech of the craziness and sorrow

Yes, to dance beneath the gift banner while shouting “great”

Followed by those too late, circled by the jealous fans

With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the posts

Let me forget about today's clues tomorrow

Hey, Mister Daniel Freeman, won't you post a clue for me

I'm not sleepy and there is no site I'd rather be

Hey, Mister Daniel Freeman, won't you post a clue for me

<August 22, 2008 ravel5184: When you look at a player's profile and see a comment on <Team White vs. Team Black, 2008>, more often than not it leads me to page numbers such as 187 or 179 which do not exist yet.>

<Chessgames.com: We can't replicate that error. Can you show us a specific link which isn't working?>

And yet, we don't think we're going out on a limb to regard the Bible as the most important book in human history. >

Thanks

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