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Subject: Re: Bt: Basement tourneys, Bathtubs,Bobs, Benjamins etc.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:47:29 10/08/00

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On October 08, 2000 at 15:24:05, Eelco de Groot wrote:

>I also would like to ask the moderators to show some restraint in deleting posts
>or people from this forum for the time being.


Note that the _only_ posts deleted in the past week were the huge free-for-all
that everyone saw.  We have _not_ deleted any "chessmaster" tournament posts.
We have not threatened to do so.  We have not threatened _any_ action toward
anybody posting these tournaments.

The _only_ thing that has transpired relative to these posts is that I have
requested that the subject be more accurate, rather than sensational, so that
people can decide whether they want to read them or not basedon the accurate
subject line, rather than being based on a misleading subject line.  I only
made this request after _three_ different members grumbled both here and via
moderator email.  Had I not been a moderator, I would have grumbled also about
the "world cup" topic.

So there has been nothing deleted except for the chessbits issue.  It would
seem that posts have been disappearing right and left.  But that simply is
not what has happened.  The chessbits stuff was deleted after many email
complaints to the moderators popped in.  And after the three of us discussed
it at length and tried the "please stop" approach first.

I deleted at least 5 of my own posts when I removed the thread.  Didn't bother
me a bit as the thread was garbage in the first place.



>And I would like to ask Daniel to
>please continue his basement tournaments and if he finds something interesting
>post it. I hope he can see some humour too in the gigantic thread  and initial
>misunderstandings following his rather innocent Joel Benjamin - Yasser Seirawan
>post. Much ado about nothing! For the people who complained, the best way to
>raise the level of this forum is of course to post something that you think
>might be of more interest to the readers.
>
>In light of all the recent commotion I was hoping we could maybe let this "Bob's
>forum"-subject too give it the rest of its 36 hours before it goes quietly into
>the archives anyway? I don't see these posts as meant to be entirely
>unconstructive. But anything new on the Kramnik - Kasparov match? Just my
>personal opinion of course.
>
>Okay, I'll shut up now. Where's the soap?
>
>Eelco



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