I made my opinion clear enough on the page- and I very much appreciate your support on this. Believe me.

Back to enjoying chess and music and what have ya.

Good show!

Bye for now

It's about our fearless Leader, and <mack> painting a picture for now that does leave us/me wondering.

Actually, already before the week-end, I - for some reason - wanted to give Dom and mack a "power-speech" before they went off to the tournament.

That's what I sorta did on previous similar occasions.

When I come to the Magnus page, the LAST THING IN THE WORLD I WANT TO SEE is a long, convoluted discussion about ratings theory.

If you want to do that, you can open a specialty forum for it.

If this behavior does not cease immediately, I shall be lodging formal complaints with the administrators accompanied by emails with highly specific links from this page.

I am not the only person at this website who wants this OFF TOPIC endless theoretical discussion OFF THE PAGE.

I will be canvassing other members who agree with me over the next week.

Then I will take action.

And this to <frogbert> the "whistle blower"=

we got a good thing going.... look no one posts computer analysis or rating discussions on our pages...

<frogbert> never bothers me, primarily because I've had him on ignore since the <Wesley So> explosion. I haven't read a word he's said since.

Ironically, I didn't even know that he was still droning on and on about the Ratings Theory- I just guessed he was.

heh

And I was right, apparently- although to be honest I still don't know for sure because I didn't read anything he posted today. It's all invisible to me.

Although going from memory, I've never been more bored in my life than I was from glancing at that endless ratings drivel he used to post. It's one of the main reasons I never visit the Carlsen page- too boring. I just got angry because the hilarious <ontocaustic> posts got zapped. I finally got him to answer me!! I thought that was unfair, to say the least.

Plus nobody can mess with our pages cuz we can zap them with our phasers.

Sent you an emu

All we have to do is jump together on the next one and maybe we can convince <frogbert> to take the appropriate action.

<Frogbert> does care about Magnus and the Carlsen page, and he himself even suggested using his player page- the <Hans Rundle> page- as a place for the pure theory debate.

In addition, <Alex Magnus> has also offered his forum as a venue for the pure theory debate.

In addition, the Administrators explain on their page that they would be very happy to see the pure theory discussion moved to the <Notepad Elo> player page.

What's important here is to maintain absoulte good faith.

We shouldn't blow the whistle unless a post is totally and obviously not relevant to a current Magnus Carlsen ratings debate issue.

For example, the recent discussion of the <Sonas> article would indicate that any of the ratings posts after that are clearly on topic.

I'm thinking back to discussions that lasted for days and days, pages and pages in the past in which Magnus' name is not even typed out in any of them- and there are literally hundreds of these stretches on his player page.

If something like that resumes, I advocate we all remain alert and take action in unison.

Again, the phrase the admins used was "we would love it" if the pure theory were moved to the <Launching pad Elo> page.

Finally, note that the support on the Carlsen page was clearly and heavily in favor of moving the pure theory discussion off it.

Including the support of both <Alex Magnus> and, it should again be emphasized- <frogbert> himself.

I loved them both- thank you.

I'm also going to collect all of the Queen songs together in one playlist so I can give myself a concert.