Moderation Rules and Decisions

[Kevin Bonham]

An account that is suspected of being owned by a banned user is under investigation and has been suspended while under investigation.

Some posts by this account have also been taken offline.

[Update: The account is now banned unless the owner can supply information proving their identity.]

[Update 2: It is now proven that account chessmasterlove was a hydra of banned user Axiom.]

[Kevin Bonham]

antichrist shoutbox-banned for 2 days for bringing up moderation issues in the shoutbox - third time I've had to mod him in a few days.

[Kevin Bonham]

As noted in the moderation discussions thread, antichrist is banned from commenting on moderation for two weeks and is also permanently banned from using analogies of any kind when commenting on moderation.

[Kevin Bonham]

Hoptex banned, hydra of banned user Axiom.

[Kevin Bonham]

I will be mostly if not entirely offline between the morning of the 4th and the evening of the 10th. Please direct all moderation issues or requests to another mod during this time.

[Kevin Bonham]

I've moved a thread antichrist started about Muhammed Ali offline because antichrist threadjacked his own thread with only the third post.

Even when someone is the starter of a thread they should make some token effort to keep it on topic.

[Kevin Bonham]

antichrist is excluded from the Australian Chess section for a week for posting on a thread he had been banned from and for continuing to post off-topic political material such as comments about Donald Trump on chess-section threads.

[Kevin Bonham]

Deleted a post that encouraged domestic violence (albeit of a minor level) in response to domestic violence, and could be read as encouraging readers to fabricate other pretexts for domestic violence being acceptable. Domestic violence is never OK, irrespective of the genders involved.

[Kevin Bonham]

Really sick of antichrist not getting the message about not posting stupid and often inappropriate off-topic political, historical, religious or whatever material in chess threads completely without any provocation.

antichrist is excluded from the overseas tournament section for a year or until I remember to lift the exclusion, whichever is longer.

This may at my discretion be lifted early if and only if I have not deleted any of his posts anywhere for being off-topic for at least three months.