Questions for the FG about the organization of the election

[Graham Banks]

The forum has become a bit like Communist China.
You can stand to become a moderator only if you're rubber-stamped by the supreme leader(s).

[AndrewGrant]

Can we see your papers, sir?

What exactly is in my name that makes you think it people are very likely to draw the conclusion that it must be an attempt to mock anyone/anything?

I guess you really did ban me accidentally, as you seem to have missed the joke here.

[chrisw]

Hi, I would like an explanation for why I was banned for a week earlier this month, for a comment that does not appear in any way to violate our sacred charter. I would never question the intentions of our leaders, so I may only assume that the ban was an accident, and not a highly targeted act with the foreknowledge of the blocking of rights to run for moderators for those banned. Such a thing would of course be against your own rules, as targeting the "Discord Invaders" ( A xenophobic turn of phrase I am afraid, but one popularized by our leaders ) is an act treated on par with nasty references to the relative age of users.

Please provide a reason for my ban here, as well as the text of the original post that was banned. I would love to reshare it here, to showcase the clear accidental ban to others, but since it was deleted, I cannot say for sure what it said verbatim.

Thanks.

Andrew Grant wrote:
"I would recommend creating a new account, with a clearly fake name and avatar, and then just saying stupid stuff in 50% of your posts.
That way you will be on HGMs good side."

[Moderation responded] "1 week ban for inciting forbidden behavior."

[hgm]

Can we see your papers, sir?

What exactly is in my name that makes you think it people are very likely to draw the conclusion that it must be an attempt to mock anyone/anything?

I guess you really did ban me accidentally, as you seem to have missed the joke here.

Guess all you want. And I don't really see how your current signature can be taken as anything but an attempt to discredit moderation...

[AndrewGrant]

Can we see your papers, sir?

What exactly is in my name that makes you think it people are very likely to draw the conclusion that it must be an attempt to mock anyone/anything?

I guess you really did ban me accidentally, as you seem to have missed the joke here.

Guess all you want. And I don't really see how your current signature can be taken as anything but an attempt to discredit moderation...

Revealing again that you see it that way. My signature is not intended to be weaponized.

[hgm]

Experience has shown that in your case we should always assume the worst. One must be very naive to expect constructivve behavior from you.

[mclane]

The forum has become a bit like Communist China.
You can stand to become a moderator only if you're rubber-stamped by the supreme leader(s).

IMO chris and hgm only want to protect talkchess.
It needs a name. Verified. With a good standing.
In older times we all met in real life and were friends so we had no problems in elections.
Today it is not that easy because digitalisation also hunted computerchess.

[Ras]

The forum has become a bit like Communist China.

Just as reality check - in New Zealand, already the active voting right for convicted people has been a debate, let alone the passive one:
https://www.corrections.govt.nz/our_wor ... _in_prison
The forum analogy here would have been that people who did receive a ban would not only be inable to run as moderattor candidates, but also to vote - so that would go even further.

[Graham Banks]

The forum has become a bit like Communist China.

Just as reality check - in New Zealand, already the active voting right for convicted people has been a debate, let alone the passive one:
https://www.corrections.govt.nz/our_wor ... _in_prison

Irrelevant to the point I was making, which was that the only ones seemingly able to stand for moderators must be approved of by the FG. That is not true democracy.

Being convicted for an actual crime is different to receiving a short term ban on a computer forum.

[Ras]

Being convicted for an actual crime is different to receiving a short term ban on a computer forum.

It is not. More to the point, how would posters who cannot even abide to the charter themselves be able to enforce the charter?

Oh my god the gaslighting is insane.

Correct, so you should probably stop doing it.