Sungolian

Let me get this straight then. So the conspiracy theory accuses that not only are the Parhamites being unfairly persecuted, but that chess.com is actively fabricating evidence (in the form of emails alleging behaviours that never occurred) in order to justify their persecution?

I am not derek: Member Since: Jul 25, 2012.

i bet he's swiss.  people are always mixing those 2 up

get your fact straight sporty, not banned but ....

Sungolian closed his account of his own accord.

by Calamondin 

edit: oh ! Dereek disappeared , oh well.

Member until: Jul 25 2012

I agree, he should really stay away from those stuff.

I don't believe that for a second.  I'm friends with Sungolian off-site.  I was just talking to him today and he told me he was locked out of this site around 5:30 today.

Calamondin is a member of the staff, can't see any reason for her to lie.

haha  oh come now kco, we all know those guys are weasels

@IANDJ: I'm not exactly sure what "evidence" exists. I was going to tentatively assert that the email looks authentic based on it's proper use of grammar, punctuation, capitals, and overall tone, contrasting with some of the barely literate Parhamites that had revealed themselves earlier in the forums. But then IANDJ (who is clearly a sock puppet account for a former P) appears to write well, so that nulls my claim. And of course, there's no *actual* traceability of the email; no digital signature, unforgeable headers, or such.

And then the counter claim, that the email is a lie, of course can only be proved by demonstrating that there is *no* proof that the events depicted in the email took place, which is of course impossible without corroborations from chess.com. So the claim is effectively both unfalsifiable and unprovable at the same time.

So I'm confused, skeptical, and in need of another Strongbow.

But Sungolian struck me as a thoughful "devil's advocate" for the P, not the foaming-at-the-mouth rabid P supported of yesteryear. So I really don't know, IANDJ.

hey he wanted to meet up with me too.  it feels like he thought his army training would impress me.

I knew that.

I'm telling you, flags, he's on his way.

If I write, like they (Parhams on their site) did, it looks like that:

"It seems The_Gavinator is currently trying to tell people that kco is a stuff member account, what a f*ckin' liar, show us some proof."

If staff closed Sungolian's account, why is his content still here? When staff closes an account, the content is gone.

Your post makes sense...except for the fact that Sungolian's content is NOT still here.  For instance, take a look at this thread in which I'm sure you can all admit Sungolian posted heavily in:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/is-auto-vacation-for-paid-users-unfair?page=1

See?  Each one of Sungolian's numerous posts have disappeared.  Like Corrijean said, when staff closes an account, the content is gone.

The content is gone.  The staff closed his account.

I checked when his account was closed. The content was there then.

It's gone now, though.

Without question a staff decision.

i concur