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**blank frank** · 01-19-2008, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by KiD

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.

Freedom of choice is one thing, but blackballing of OzChess and its associate for personal reasons is quite another. Its corrosive, disabling and quiite simply inappropriate. Its contrary to the norms of our society and its extremely unhealthy.

The point is the ACF are being selective because they are intolerant of criticism. By blackballing Ozchess the ACF is not acting as an open organisation, which is clearly what chess players should be demanding.

01-19-2008, 10:25 AM	#21 (permalink)
blank frank Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 70	Originally Posted by KiD 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. Freedom of choice is one thing, but blackballing of OzChess and its associate for personal reasons is quite another. Its corrosive, disabling and quiite simply inappropriate. Its contrary to the norms of our society and its extremely unhealthy. The point is the ACF are being selective because they are intolerant of criticism. By blackballing Ozchess the ACF is not acting as an open organisation, which is clearly what chess players should be demanding.