Well, yeah. I wonder if Missy noticed your repeated posts here and had those in mind when making that comment on the CG support forum. She's a clever one like that. Regardless, must I point out your hypocrisy in this?>

Missy quoted my post on the other forum (which was put up a few days ago) so I assume that was in mind.

<Willber G: AFAIR the original issue was not about the content of posts but threats to the forum and contravention of the site rules. I was simply asking if CG had changed it's policy on this. If so, then fair enough.>
As of right now nothing has changed. I've been taking care of the socks as they come. If you see any new ones just let me know please.

<<<stone free or die:>> We can tolerate attempts to hack the server, but not to serve up questions to the admins, or ?

And even more respectfully, do you approve his comments calling for nok's blood to run on the streets - and mine as well?

Or his reposting the Christ-Church murder's manifesto [sic] on the <<CG>> pages?

Or his flooding the Cafe with page after page of copy-paste to prevent other users from using the forum?

Or his calling into question the manhood of some of your administrators?

After all, you can say what you agree with here, might I add a copy of things I disagree with?>
None of this is allowed or condoned. Please blow the whistle so I can see these things and take care of them. Blowing the whistle helps me a lot by seeing the problem quicker and also seeing how often he's been causing problems so that I can start giving out lengthy probation. Also, if questions are asked on why I gave users probation I will have a record of everything the user has done.

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Blindfold simul, 8b (1858)

Blindfold simul, 8b (1858)

Here is more poop floating in the punch bowl:

Simul, 3b (1840)

Blindfold simul, 6b (1867)

Clock simul, 12b (1939)

Tournament Index search: "simul"

<Or his reposting the Christ-Church murder's manifesto [sic] on the <<CG>> pages?>

Which posting guideline is so infringed?

<I'll go through them and update the names. thanks>

De nada.

But a quick question about the search result page...

Tournament Index search: "simul"

It claims to have 123(!) pages of hits, 50/page.

That's a bit absurd don't you think? Basically seems to be including all tournaments.

I'd like the search to be a little tighter - first listing tournaments (events) with a match in the title (and maybe the Site?, Date?), then looking for hits with a match in the tournament page description, etc.

I also like an explicit hit count on the result page.

Actually, the entire search machinery framework could use an overhaul don't you think?

(Let's start with the basic of being able to search on PGN tag headers explicitly - like Event/Site/EventDate/Date/Type, etc.)

Thanks.

The whistleblowing setup has a big hole. The whistleblower has no way of knowing if his message was even read, and no record of having blown the whistle.

Application of suspensions is wildly inconsistent, yet we don't get enough information to evaluate them fairly. (I guess that's intentional.)

For example, I was suspended for calling another poster a coward on the Rogoff page (well, OK). Yet on the same page a poster iswishing another poster would die, and...nothing.>

The biggest hole I know is the most obvious - whistleblowing and ignore-lists are essentially incompatible.

Let's say that's why you think you were banned, I'm inclined to disagree, but since you raise the topic...

I'm not sure you understand what either a sockpuppet or spammer is <messiah>. Truly.

E.g. I believe you think I'm guilty of sockpuppeteering.

As far as spam goes, well, your harassment campaign against Carlsen definitely leaves many on <CG> cold, and it certainly could be considered spamming.

<On the other hand, chrisowen, cormier and harrylime can continue their spamming campaign undisturbed.>

I really wish people would leave <chrisowen> alone, for several reasons. Unlike <messiah>, his posts aren't designed to harass, and are specific to the PotD - not a grandiose plan to pollute the entire site.

Moreover, I think his intentions are good as he's commenting on the problem, even if people can't decipher his code.

If you don't like his comments, just put him on ignore and all your problems are solved (he never attacks other users, or chess figures, or anything negative - unlike <messiah>).

<cormier> is also a fairly low volume poster, and again never attacking any person or politic. Here again, the ignore list works well.

I think that to attack either <cormier> or <chrisowen> really requires going a little out of the way.

<Harry> is another story - but someone who clearly uses <CG> as a social outlet. But in his case let's just say he complains about being banned almost as much as you.

Maybe CG could use ignore-lists as a form of whistle blowing. Set some threshold value and run a periodic cron-job to alert the site management... if a large enough number of users are actively ignoring someone then perhaps the ignored user should be investigated to see why members are opting to ignore that user.

I would personally set a second cron-job value that when exceeded would ghost the user. Basically putting them on a global ignore-list and the only way to read their posts would be to log-in and explicitly follow that user by choice. Such a feature would probably go a long way into cleaning up the forums for the general public.

Also, trying to answer that I found this:

<Which posting guideline is so infringed?>

Are you kidding me?!

I'll bite -

<1. No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language.>

Or this one (slightly modified):

<3. No vitriolic or systematic personal attacks against <the human race>.>

Or this one:

<8. Do not degrade Chessgames or any of it's staff/volunteers.>

We're talking about republishing the murderous <Christ Church> killer's manifesto.

Are you suggesting <CG> should support such postings?