Maybe, Whatever

haha right.

   I've created 27 threads in 6 yrs and 7 of them have been locked. You have to remember the 1st couple yrs I was here,I didn't know what I was doing.........wait.....strike that....the same thing could be said about me now.

This is ridiculous, David, Taurus, and Batgirl!!! I can't even talk about driving because "speeding" is technically "illegal activity". 1st of all, it's a traffic violation, not a CRIME. 2nd, just because I happen to reference it doesn't mean it's the point of contention. 3rd, I understand no politic/religion..etc, but this is unnecessary. So I happen to bring up speed. Who cares? I have a whole thread about driving.

What is CRIME?

A crime is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it; a breach or violation of some public right or duty due to a whole community, considered as a community. In its social aggregate capacity, as distinguished from a civil injury. Wilkins v. U. S

You get my point. It's not like talking about drug trafficing. It's about freakin going fast in a car. It's not a big deal, and no, a traffic violation isn't considered a criminal offense. It's a CTITABLE offense, but not CRIMINAL, except in extraordinary circumstances. This is ridiculous. I can't just say something like "I went 90mph on the road yesterday and the tachometer in the car spiked" or something like that? Come on.

Actually the thread was getting interesting because the moderators were being pressed for a reason.  I got several private messages stating that their position was legal.  This would have been fine if anyone had been challenging the legality of their position which they weren't, what we were challenging was its rationale. 

Of great interest was FM MikeKlein post entitled Is Donald Trump playing 3-D chess, a mixture of chess and liberally peppered with political references.  I would like to ask the moderators why FM MikeKlien was not censored and subjected to being lectured on the legality of the site position on politics and chess.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/is-donald-trump-playing-3-d-chess

I feel like moderators are just interested in any way they can close large threads cause they take up space on the site. I have a whole thread about driving/speed/cars, whatever u wanna call it and not a single moderator intervention.

That's an understatement

you know some little warning would be appropriate, guys you are border line please be careful, guys this is your second and last warning, guys i am locking the thread lest you have any valid reason why i shouldn't.  Always we are seeking to keep the dialogue open unless its overtly offensive or someone is posting excerpts from a political manifesto or preaching.  There must surely be some discernment, the ability to distinguish between current events which are political in nature and the facts which surround those events and actively advocating and trying to influence others with a particular political or religious bias.

Whoa Whoa Whao, you're a Mod?

yes I am King of the Mods

 Why is this thread in danger of being locked? What TOS have we violated?

If a thread was previously closed then the likelihood seems to be that posting material from the locked thread is frowned upon.  Perhaps there is no specific terms of service violation but as you can see sometimes there doesn't need to be one, it can be arbitrarily locked down.

I posted that comment because I wanted to know why THAT thread was locked. And saying it can be arbitrarily locked down might as well mean a moderator might just dislike a member and wants to mute them by locking the thread.

Yes as you can see the moderator took it upon himself simply to lock it down.  It was a completely arbitrary decision.

I think he did it because he didn't like the fact that someone was pointing out the moderator's fallacies in his arguments. I will submit a ticket for that thread as there was absolutely no reason or explanation for it being locked down.

Best behaviour ?

*looks around the chess.com forums*

Ah, now I get it, you're saying EVERYONE is in violation of TOS, right ?

@EndgameStudy Yes he was being asked to provide a rationale for the sites terms of service but did not want to commit himself simply being content to state that his position was legal which was like a straw man argument.  Actually JD Cannon the real King of the Mods is an excellent guy, very reasonable.  Good luck with your ticket.

You never gave us a 1st warning