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**KiD** · 01-18-2008, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by phild707

It seems to me to be fairly obvious from earlier posts that no one has voiced any objection to the ACF using bulletin boards in general for media release purposes
The two criteria that have been argued for are
1. There should be a democratic ACF policy put in place to formalise the arrangment and
2. It should be done in a fair and even handed way. Ie both of the currently active and well supported chess chat forums should be given the opportunity to publish media releases.
Do you object to these suggestions?

1. I do not object to the suggestion that the ACF should have an official bulletin board of its own, but I do not believe that the ACF needs to formally decree some public bulletin board as an official one.

2. Without a formally recognised "official" bulletin board, ACF officials should be free to choose to post in as many publicly accessible fora (including bulletin boards) as they want as a form of voluntary, value-adding service to their constituents. I don't think it's right for us to "demand" from said officials to be "fair and even handed" and post in multiple bulletin boards to satisfy the sensibilities of some people when these are outside of their job descriptions.

And as lotlizard suggested, people posting in this forum are free to copy the publicly available announcements in the other forum. I believe MichaelBaron did the reverse, re the MCC Australia Day Weekender.

01-18-2008, 05:37 PM	#19 (permalink)
KiD Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 84	Originally Posted by phild707 It seems to me to be fairly obvious from earlier posts that no one has voiced any objection to the ACF using bulletin boards in general for media release purposes The two criteria that have been argued for are 1. There should be a democratic ACF policy put in place to formalise the arrangment and 2. It should be done in a fair and even handed way. Ie both of the currently active and well supported chess chat forums should be given the opportunity to publish media releases. Do you object to these suggestions? 1. I do not object to the suggestion that the ACF should have an official bulletin board of its own, but I do not believe that the ACF needs to formally decree some public bulletin board as an official one. 2. Without a formally recognised "official" bulletin board, ACF officials should be free to choose to post in as many publicly accessible fora (including bulletin boards) as they want as a form of voluntary, value-adding service to their constituents. I don't think it's right for us to "demand" from said officials to be "fair and even handed" and post in multiple bulletin boards to satisfy the sensibilities of some people when these are outside of their job descriptions. And as lotlizard suggested, people posting in this forum are free to copy the publicly available announcements in the other forum. I believe MichaelBaron did the reverse, re the MCC Australia Day Weekender.