I was just informed <TheFocus> has left Cg.com?

I know who he is "in real life"- he's a bona fide published American chess historian whose book on Bobby Fischer will be published within this year.

He was an ornament to your website.

Maybe next time you won't take THREE WEEKS to figure out that it's worth keeping PAYING PREMIUM MEMBERS who add a great deal to your site, and not worth bending over backwards to accomodate a NON PAYING and obviously destructive member such as "lennon fan"?

You really dropped the ball on that one.

Are you trying to run your website into the ground on purpose?

Because that's what it seems like.

Are you even aware of how many long standing premium members of this site have posted this week that they are considering doing the same as <The Focus>, and leaving?

Do you care?

It was not <Lennonfan> that caused <TheFocus> to leave. It looks like <shach matov> and <KKDEREK> began continually attacking him after <Lennonfan> was put on probation, as if he (<TheFocus>) was to blame.

I have read through this thread and can clearly see that <shach> was the main one. If anything, <TheFocus> probably left out of disgust.

Perhaps, instead of continuing to fight, <TheFocus> should have reported this to he Administration. Maybe he did. I don't know.

At one point, I see that <shach matov> said that he had stalked after <TheFocus> to <humiliate> him for having pointed out that <SM> was wrong about something.

Sad. This is not the <TheFocus> that I know.

I am still trying to locate <TheFocus>. I have contacted family members of his who are passing on the word that I am searching for him. They would not give me his phone number as they seem to be VERY protective of him.

Where you or members X, Y and Z fit in and weigh in on that decision making process is impossible to say, but there is a feeling of dysproportionality or whatever grievances as worded by JFQ and several others, both recently as well as over the last few/ 12/ 24 months. On various topics.

Answers, on any of these questions, preferably at my forum, monsieur TeeDee.

Anyways I wish to extend to you and everyone visiting here a very good weekend. Really. ;

<Markcf / Lennonfan> was a genuine troll who had trouble relating to others. As <Lennonfan> he was given a final warning on Feb 11, in this forum, and banned on Apr 5. During those two months his trolling never ceased, and even <Ohio Chess Fan>, who never judges others, told him that he should cool it on Mar 24. His trolling was far worse than either <SirBruce> or <steppenwolf>.

Yesterday, the same paper attacked Bob Dylan for appeasing the Chinese state by dropping 'protest' songs such as The Times They Are a-Changin' from his Chinese live set.

But the Times *are* changing, if Ray allows his column to be infiltrated by, ah, fifth columnists.

And proprietor Rupert Murdoch knows a few tricks when it comes to appeasing the Chinese state.

He also said that he did not leave due to the arguing with <shach> and <KKDEREK>. He considered that to be over when he began putting people on IGNORE.

My job here is done. I only came to find him and send him some books. I won't be posting any more.

<KKDEREK> I really think you are a hypocrite. What you call criticism looks like an attack. He had already put <shach> on Ignore and then you put in your worthless comments. Wanted to get up your ego?

<TheFocus> was one of many to blame in this affair. All parties should have been reported and punished.

i use ctrl+f to "find" certain PGN variations that people point, but when i do ctrl+f nothing happens...

why? because they added the shortcut to flip the board with exactly ctrl+f

its really annoying =( help do something about this

Yes, <SugarDom> is right. He's also right that it's like this everywhere on the internet.

My last post on this thread was so angry because the administrators waited so long to take action against <lennon fan>. Way, way too long. He was breaking 3 out of 4 of the guidelines from the get go.

I'd say 4 out of 4.

Isn't libel a criminal offence under US law?

Didn't he publicly defame <domdaniel> by stating that <dom> was a wanted felon?

That said, I'm sorry to see <The Focus> go, but that was his decision- and a very poor one, if he left because of the fighting.

I'd also like to stress that my posts regarding <lennon fan> on this forum never once "complained" that he was attacking me.

I had him on ignore, and still do, so I don't even know if he was attacking me. I don't care if he was.

I made two posts about him prior to yesterday, both based on information and reposts in <domdaniel's> forum about <lennonfan's> libel.

I was, and remain, frustrated that the administrators took so long to identify just how serious a problem <lennonfan> was to this website with his daily flagrant violations of ALL of the posting guidelines.

I got little or no warning when I was suspended- and it happened quickly.

I was suspended with just cause- and I got the message, too.

Suspensions and probation work well as a tool to curb disruptive and flagrant violators of the posting guidelines.

I have no idea why <lennonfan> was given so much rope before he was finally put on probation.

I can assure you I am far from the only person at this website who is angry about that.