Smyslov_Fan wrote on 07/23/13 at 14:42:14:
There is absolutely no harm being done with his uncommented games.
If these posts always appeared tenth in order, I would agree. But here you have someone posting multiple of these random games into several sections of the board, and these appear right at the top. To get around them, you first have to click and see how useless they are. You then have to go back and click the forum topic to get a list of recent posts more likely to be interesting. So it does waste significant time.
Smyslov_Fan wrote on 07/23/13 at 14:42:14:
The moderator's default should be that a chess-related post is to be encouraged.
I fully agree, if you mean
related to chess opening theory and not merely
chess related. But even then, special cases arise.
Smyslov_Fan wrote on 07/23/13 at 14:42:14:
If a thread is locked as punishment for past writings, it gives the appearance that the mods here have declared war on that member. Such an impression only hurts the site.
Again I agree. But this sets up a straw man who wants to lock sloughter's posts because of his bad history here, and that wasn't the basis of my original post. Nor do I think it is the actual basis of the particular threads in question being locked.
The presence of this straw man doesn't change that posting multiple, utterly uncommented scores of solitaire chess games is not only unconstructive, but impedes the intended use of the forum. You could say it is chess-related, but does not really concern
or encourage the discussion of chess theory, which is what the parts of the forum where sloughter posts are supposed to be about.
I didn't say, by the way, that I wanted sloughter banned, or his threads to be locked or deleted. I merely said that what was going on was too much, and that sloughter himself should change his behavior. But, just possibly, a moderator's cautioning sloughter would have been a more useful response than his standing here declaiming everyone's right to post however they like, if only it involves chess.