I just want to say that as a long time member of Chess Chat I am disappointed with the lack of any new features, new design, new anything on this forum.

For all their faults on Australia's other chess forum, I wish to say this, at least it seems every couple months of so they have new features, new downloads, things to make life more enjoyable for the membership.

Over here we get basically nothing by comparison. Recently they even got a new pgn viewer there, one which works with [pgn] tags like here - except theirs is bigger, better looking, and has a few more features than our old outdated chess viewer here.

I don't want this just to be a complaint - and have created a hydra as allowed by the rules here so that i don't get targetted for raising this issue, but I think its time for some major upgrades to this forum. If we don't get them, I can't really speak for anyone else, but I will choose to spend most of my posting and time in the Toolbox vs instead of here. Enough is enough already.

I acknowledge the point that things haven't changed all that much here (in terms of new "functionality"). However, I would also argue that the main business of a forum is to exchange ideas. And so the functionality you need is to be able to post and search, set up polls and (because this is a chess forum) load positions and games that people can view online.

We have made structural changes to the forum to improve the way the forum is presented and thus assist in the core business of exchanging ideas. For example, the way that the tournament forum is managed has been improved to make it easier to find information on current and future events. Also the Teen sub-forum was added and a number of other sub forums were added to the Non-Chess area.

So in summary, we are continually improving things here. In your message you say things are so much better there that you will spend more time there but the only feature you mention is PGN viewer (which we have had here for years) so it is not clear that your decision is based on some feature which is not available here. If it is just the size of the chessboard that is an issue you can probably change your screen resolution to achieve the same end.

True to form, Kevin has silenced any dissent from CC members by removing the above thread and blaming someone here for 'advertising' OzChess. This is despite the fact that we are insultingly called the toolbox in the anon's post, suggesting that this action by Kevin is nothing more than the removal of genuine criticism through false pretenses.

...if Bonbot removed that thread then he is acting pretty much true to form. Are people simply going to put up with his dogmatic authoritarian paranoia for ever over there? The chess chat posters are like people in the old communist block, they all know something is wrong ,but they are all scared of speaking up because of the secret police.



cheers,

Dear Alex,

Following your latest "infraction", accompanied as it was by an abusive message that contained no intelligent content and was basically just of schoolboy abuse level, I am writing to inform you formally that I consider any future PMs you send me, including "infractions", to be on the public record and available to me to quote and circulate publicly wherever and whenever I please, including in excerpted form, and stating your real full name as the person responsible.

If you do not wish any future PM or "infraction" you send me to be quoted publicly, then please do not PM me or issue "infractions".

This also includes shoutbox PMs. It does not include emails sent from email addresses that you have used to email me in the past.

On pretty much any site you lacked admin power on you would lose your PM rights for emailing another user in such a manner.

I am copying this PM to two of your moderators so that they are aware of the situation. I am not requesting any action from them. I just wish them to know that I have exercised my right to declare that any future PMs that you send me may be published.

Again, if you don't like this, please do not PM me.

Yours sincerely, Kevin Bonham.

Now Alex, if you are trying to dislodge Denis as ACF legal officer I recommend that you start crawling to our mate Kevin, he loves it.

Just out of curiosity, is AC a part of Chess Chat that comes over here and does not like the people here?

Just out of curiosity, is AC a part of Chess Chat that comes over here and does not like the people here?

I don't think I could say I like the people anywhere, if that answers your question.