Chess Forum / Computer / March 2010

There is a big debate going on right now over on the USCF Issues
Forum. The debate is about the following posting by Kevin Bachler:

"Subject: NOTICE OF APPEAL

"I do note that Sam was capable of appropriately referencing his
appeal within his post on his appeal. Good job Sam.

"Hopefully people will properly maintain threading with respect to
this topic."

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For this posting, which is completely innocuous, Kevin Bachler has
been given a Level 4 Sanction, which means that he has been BANNED
from posting FOREVER.

Of course, there must be something more to this. Bachler used to post
over here on rgcp and he has the annoying habit of always wanting to
have the last word. When somebody said something he disagreed with, he
would post a response that was often the same thing he had posted
previously. When he got into a war with somebody else like that, their
posts would go back and forth hundreds of times, boring everybody
else.

However, what Bachler seems to have done here is, knowing that the
moderators were especially selected for their dislike of me, he waved
a red flag in front of a bull by saying something good about me. By
the way, Bachler is not favorite poster nor am I his favorite. We
rarely cross paths. I am not aware of Bachler ever saying anything
good about me in the past.

Thus, it seems that Bachler said something good about me just to make
the moderators angry, with the result that he has been permanently
banned from posting.

Sam Sloan