23-07-2013, 11:11 AM
Criticism of Chess Scotland on this forum is allowed - it has to be.
All organisations have faults, and the only way those faults can ever be rectified is if people draw attention to them and, ideally, suggest better ways of working. Any organisation that does not listen to criticism is on a one-way street to extinction.
But what cannot be allowed is personal abuse of unpaid volunteers. Regardless of whether those volunteers are CS officials, ordinary CS members, or non-members, they must be treated with courtesy.
So the moderators have a right (in fact, a duty) to remove any posts which contain personal abuse. But I think they should mark that action by posting a statement to the effect that they have deleted a post, and stating the grounds for deletion (e.g. "personal abuse"), though they should not name either the poster or his/her target.
All organisations have faults, and the only way those faults can ever be rectified is if people draw attention to them and, ideally, suggest better ways of working. Any organisation that does not listen to criticism is on a one-way street to extinction.
But what cannot be allowed is personal abuse of unpaid volunteers. Regardless of whether those volunteers are CS officials, ordinary CS members, or non-members, they must be treated with courtesy.
So the moderators have a right (in fact, a duty) to remove any posts which contain personal abuse. But I think they should mark that action by posting a statement to the effect that they have deleted a post, and stating the grounds for deletion (e.g. "personal abuse"), though they should not name either the poster or his/her target.