Uh, hate to break this to you, guys, but posting mode <is> normal chessgames usage. ;p

Let them live their happy little life, I know when I first came here one individual really bugged the crap out of me. Seriously bugged the crap out of me. I've gotten past it, this individual no longer hangs around here.

And this was before the days of algebraic notation (See, you should have paid attention in math!!)

I understand that relations grow over the years.
But how come that posts far harmless than the one below get deleted while this one is still on the page? Or is Goldsby entitled to do the deletion himself?

<Nov-03-11
LIFE Master AJ: As long as you (both) continue to act like ANIMALS (baboons, chimpanzee's, etc) ... you will be treated as such. And any childish attempts to force my hand are met with only scorn and reproval.

When you stop acting in a such a manner, and maybe send me an e-mail of apology ... then maybe we could start over. (If you wanted to do that, that would be OK with me.)

Why did it need to be said on this forum in the first place?

I am furious. I blew the whistle again and again on <AJ- related> arguments that are littering player pages, most recently on the <Sultan Khan> page.

Three days ago I blew the whistle on such off-topic, and in this case, actually obscene fare in the <Sultan Khan> page.

Here's a nice tidbit from <Khan's> player bio of only 8 kibbutz pages:

<Sep-07-10
LIFE Master AJ: He just admitted that he was full of feces ...>

Charming. Off- topic *and* obscene.

That's a great advertisement for your website eh? Reminds one of an issue of the "Athenaeum" or something.

I expect you to take whistle blowing on Player bio pages and important game pages seriously, and to take prompt action.

I like <block capitals> or plain *block caps* myself, but it turns out that handwriting can be described in an alarming variety of ways -- now mostly redundant, I guess.

'Cursive' - sometimes called a 'Running Hand' - is just any script where successive letters are connected by loops and dongles. But the script can also be termed uncial, half-uncial, majuscule (the handwriting version of SHOUTING). And that's just in the Latin alphabet.

Also, descriptive notation may be cumbersome, but it isn't half as difficult as some lifelong algebraists like to pretend. It carries advantages, like the ability to read old books. And there are a couple of situations where it's actually clearer than algebraic, eg endings where a Rook (or Knight or Bishop) Pawn has certain properties, and thinking of it that way is more intuitive than "a- or h-pawn", etc.

Whatever AJ's faults, it's clear that a significant part of the problem is the "troop" following him around, and in at least one recent instance, not only insulting him but people associating with him.

Whatever the so-called AJ "problem" is, my suggestion is for his camp followers to stop following him, and some or even most of the problem will go away as some of the the cycles of abuse will be broken. Some of these camp followers surprise me because they seem to be otherwise, thoughtful and reasonable normal human beings.