Originally Posted by
Vladimir Drkulec
It is my impression that Chris Mallon was slow walking registering people for the forum prior to the last election. He says that this is not so. There may have been some element of broken automatic email notification involved in this. This resulted in multiple emails to me as president complaining about the inability to register. Many of these complaints came from people trying to give testimonials on Victor Plotkin's behalf. I asked for the ability to approve people for posting. For the most part these were people who I had known for a long time. I did not receive this ability to approve people for posting. I continued to receive complaints with no ability to resolve the situation. When I included Chris Mallon in my responses to these people I was blasted for sharing his email with people. Most of the people are well known chess players.
It is quite possible that I am over-reacting to some things Chris said and did though moving posts around in a meeting was highly improper.
You have, and have always had, the ability to approve new people. Why are you still pretending that you don't, when you in fact approved people during or just before the last meeting? In between meetings, I don't always check every single day to see if anyone new is online. Just because the situation from your perspective had changed (sudden influx of people weeks ahead of upcoming vote) doesn't mean that I slowed down and certainly doesn't mean I was intentionally being obstructive.
Maybe instead of sharing my personal email with people, you could have found out why my chess.ca email for the forums wasn't working? I don't need my phone buzzing all day because of impatient people who think I have nothing better to do than fix a forum problem.
I still believe my intent in the meeting was correct with those posts, but I should have just mass-quoted them into the other thread instead of moving them. It would have been a simple matter for you (or I or Lyle) to undo, however, rather than making a big deal about it.
Christopher Mallon
FIDE Arbiter