WCC Editing Project: <Karpova> yes, I am lotsa.Sorry I just dropped that post in your forum under another account- Two years ago I made the same charge about "resume fudging for vanity purposes" against <WGM Pogonina> under my JFQ handle, and in addition made a second charge that both she and her husband were unethical and arrogant.
This second charge was related to the incident during <The World v Pogonina> in which her husband wished to have access to "The World" forum as an embedded reporter, ostensibly to write an article about the match.
When "The World" began howling that this was an obvious conflict of interest- and it was, of course- both <WGM Pogonina> and her husband posted (in my opinion) the most high handed, arrogant replies to this objection.
Her husband then threatened me, demanding a retraction in a post reminiscent of the post in <the cheater of the month> thread in which <WGM Pogonina> recently threatened me. Who was she going to "report" me to? <Vladimir Putin>?
I didn't retract my charge then and I'll not do it this time either. That said, my choice of language was much too strong, to the point of being inaccurate. "Outright lie" is too strong and pejorative a term. I should have said "deliberate disingenuousness" But I get angry and then I start insulting people, it's not a character trait I'm proud of. I thought <KKDEREK's> post on this topic in your forum was well said. In addition, I posted my charge in the wrong place. I should have posted it on her player page. I posted it on the <cheater of the month> page because I happened to see her post there, and it brought back the memory of two years ago. I thought to myself, "kind of hypocritical of her to be pointing her finger at someone else's ethics, given the embedded reporter scandal and her still extant vanity padded website intro." That said, the implication of charging her with mendacious vanity on that particular thread was unfair and unjustified, because what she did and does bears no resemblance to anything as serious as cheating at chess.
I still believe it's accurate to call her on what I regard to be a form of unethical behavior. At the least, I regard it to be a form of obnoxious bragging and fudging the truth- not dissimilar to the chronic posting behavior of <Untitled Whatnot> and <GM "The Typesetter Did It">. The fact that she's currently one of the best women chess players in the world, personable, charming, and has a lot more going for her than those two guys I just mentioned makes her behavior worse, not better. She's not mentally ill or criminal so she has no reason or excuse to pad her credentials. At least that's the way I see it.
I realize that the overwhelming number of folks who bothered to reply to the <lotsa> posts don't share my opinion. Fair enough, they're entitled to their opinion and entitled to let me and everyone else know about it.
Finally, I shouldn't have started this go-round using a sock account- that was cowardly and hypocritical on my part, especially given what I posted in the <cheater of the month> thread.
And with respect to just barging into your forum with a sock, I apologize for doing that. That was both rude and unfair to you.
At any rate, for the second time in two years, I've said what I wanted to say, and I've nothing further of relevance to add.
Two years ago, there was a tad more favorable reaction to my posts, but yesterday you can see that I was tarred, feathered, and run out of town.
I think there was a bit more support for my charges last go-round because half of the website was already furious at <WGM Pogonina> and her husband.
With respect to the topic in your forum, I did find out something about "Player pages" and which famous masters have or don't have admin privileges. I didn't know this at the time, but this topic doesn't apply in the case of <WGM Pogonina>. So I shouldn't have just lumped her in on a discussion about masters who may be censoring their own player pages, without knowing what I was talking about first.
That was another reason it was clumsy, and premature, for me to add my "lotsa" post in your forum.
Ok that's it for me on this topic. Maybe I'll revisit it in another two years.
Kibitzing
