02-08-2015, 02:27 PM
George Murphy Wrote:I accept that you are the arbiter in these matters and that we must abide by your rulings, but it’s a disgrace that Andy (H) should be pestered in this way while on holiday. Phil’s two posts earlier this morning were disingenuous and did not deserve to be accorded such respect. Please note that his second post did not specify to whom he had addressed his private emails. He was careful to infer it was the ED. In fact, as a non-CS member, Phil has no call on any CS official. Andy H was under no obligation to respond to Phil’s private emails - all the more so if these concerned criticism of CS business, which certainly is what Phil implied in his posts addressed to both Andy (M) and to me. His criticisms need to be correlated with those voiced in another thread. Phil is not alone.
Hi George
It was me who pestered Andy whilst on holiday as I felt this thread could take a much darker turn and needed both to inform Andy and seek his advice. I know Phil is not on his own with this and other matters. I have always believed up until now that non members could post on CS matters on this forum but now I'm not so sure. Perhaps the time is coming when only CS members can post on this forum or at least on CS matters. Perhaps we should split the form into CS and non-CS members and not the present setup of forum members and non forum members. This forum in general takes pedantics to a whole new level. If mistakes are made then so be it , there is no maliciousness in it. I make mistakes so do we all. However I have to judge (with all moderators) what can be allowed and I have to also take transparency into account. what really annoys me personally is when I hear time and time again chess players whether or not they are CS members is that they would like to participate in debate but don't want to due to the frequent dark tone of the thread. This impression of the threads is what I am trying to stop. However we also need transparency and accountability within the workings of Chess Scotland which is why some posts have survived when possibly they should have been deleted. I am guided by the rules and guidelines imposed by Chess Scotland e.g. username must be easily recognised by the actual name of the member.
I can be easily contacted outside of this forum. I would be happy to discuss further by either telephone or email.
Perhaps if this forum is believed to be abused then it should only be for Chess Scotland members since it seems to be only Chess Scotland issues that are argued about. Or maybe we should have CS members only threads. Maybe a discussion is in order at the AGM or maybe I'm over reacting.