Making the Chess.com Forums Better

         Socialista;  They are not allowed at all in open public forums. They are allowed, but moderated in off-topic, and some groups.

This is a very sensitive thread.

Erik's directives are somewhat broad and open to interpretation.  At this point were are all trying to work through them.  If you read his original posting, it says:

Additionally, the following behaviors are not allowed in the main public forums and chat rooms:

• hijacking of threads with off-topic posts or images
• persistent stalking and harassing
• offensive or vulgar language
• religious or political debate
• spammy/pointless/distracting posts
• discussion of illegal activities (drugs, etc)
• advertising competitive sites
• cheating

The Off-Topic category and all Group forums are not moderated except for reports of hate speech, threatening personal attacks, or obscenity. If you are found unable to follow these rules, you may have your posting abilities restricted. 

This seems to say that, other than for the stated reasons, the Off Topic category is open for almost any kind of discussions. 

RJC:

The "Forum Posting Rules - Be nice + No religious or political debate" is pinned in the off-topic section.

So that would mean that Political and Religious debate is not allowed in off-topic (only groups).

I understood that, but then this thread is dated:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/forum-posting-rules---be-nice--no-religious-or-political-debate

It looks like if it is still not allowed there (so it could be unpinned).

          ZAPPED;  Actually this thread is not sensitive. We are helping Erik make the forums a better place by directing people to the right place. Trolls--3 doors down; sockpuppets--across the hall; religous people--next building over; cry babys--in the basement; chess players--2nd floor.

Or perhaps that the programming hasn't yet caught up with the policy changes.

Very clearly dated: 6 years ago

            Socialista;  Please take Crystal's advice. I've been known to be wrong before.

Yeah, antagonizing a moderator seems like a smart move.

I saw that, is just that this has been here for 4 days, so they could have changed it. Anyway, probably is not important.

         Grobe;  3 days ago Erik posted the new guidelines, but now I can't find it.

I'm not sure what you mean.  They're in his initial post in this thread.

             Yes, but then he posted them seperately,(and dated) in a locked, unanswered post. It was the same as post #1 here. It was up for a day or two, now its not. Like when the mods introduced themselves. That page lasted for about 40 minutes, and it came down. If you didn't catch it, you wouldn't know.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/moderators2

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/moderators2

Same quote, same time, same response? Totally a parallel universe intersecting thing;)

I thought everybody loved trysts.

Did we go to different schools together?

             post 784,785;  please take that down. I don't want J. Musacha to know there are 7 new mods. He's gonna wet his pants, when he thinks that I have inside info.  Some people don't need to know who the new policemen are, they just need to behave right, and not bump into the policemen.