Starting a new thread to keep track of and inform everyone of my activities as moderator. Transparency and all that good stuff.
As you may know, some time ago I came up with a set of rules to keep the forum clean. These are common sense rules and with an exception here and there, haven't been broken:
Forum Rules Recently, I've added two more when the need arose.
- Members should refrain from posting without adding to the discussion. Posting just to increase postcount is not allowed.
- Warez are intellectual property (software/music/movies/tv-series/tv-shows/etc) either through download, serial, or crack in a manner that breaks its copyright and/or license. You are not allowed to give/link to/ask for/advocate/provide information for obtaining warez.
Changing subject, for random spam I have given a lifetime ban (my 42nd) to someone advertising telephone services in India.
As of now, I'm also banning shri8131 and will remove all of his threads as spam, for the following reasons.
Firstly, I must conclude that his threads weren't really about chess, as mostly they were articles on procedures and organisations; they did not touch chess as a subject.
Second, they were written in such confusing english that it was hard to find out what they were about in the first place.
Further the threads in question don't leave much (if any) room for discussion of any kind, the user in question never replied to any threads (save his own, once); he just comes in, drops his text occupying his clipboard and moves on. And, since I have found other fora car
rying the exact same texts, I name it spam, case closed.
Thought I'd work it out and put my reasoning up as well, since it would set a prece
dence

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