Impressive Energy, Less Impressive Character
Dear
Alexander Kosalinsky
Shrestha Keshav
David Arutinian
Wopart
Guy Pelletier
anonymous
Sandra Tejada
Xavier
Jorge Palacios
Marek Podolsky
Josephine
R. Singh
V. Singh
Sasha Zilberman
Jacob
R. DeGuzman
Fred
H.D.
Miguel
Wolfgang
Delilah
Yolanda
Tinkerbell
Jacob Weissman
Marek Podolsky
Wojciech Blik
Upset User
Jorge Palacios
Maria Fernandez
Beautiful Bunny
Mad dog
Burt
Javier Torres
Lena Yokashvili
Luang Zhang
M. Rodriguez
(all commentators from this post) and all the rest from the earlier, Go, Nona! post (including my personal favorite, Johann Kriek, a name I remember from 1970s tennis):
You have been banned.
I found it a little curious that "Go, Nona!" had no commentators for six days, but a deluge of posters starting Monday morning. Further, many of the posters said almost exactly the same thing: "I'm from country x and I love Nona (or Maia, or Xie Jun, etc.), but Susan Polgar was the first to earn the title and a wonderful ambassador. Can't we just agree that I'm right?"
Virtually all demonstrated a curious immunity to my pleas to consider my arguments, while fluffy's sub-thread was met by abuse and a similar general disregard for the arguments he offered. And that's too bad, because both discussions raised interesting issues worthy of consideration.
In any case, my "many" respondents shared not only exceptionally similar viewpoints and ways of expressing them; it turns out, by a no doubt astonishing coincidence, that they share a common IP address as well. In short, all of the above are the same person, or at most, a very small group of people sharing the same computer or local network. It certainly isn't a collection of diverse, independent people from around the globe; rather, it's just a cheap stunt by (probably) one individual who misguidedly thinks this will improve Susan Polgar's reputation and help her cause.
My apologies to my readers for not detecting the fraud sooner. Live and learn! As for the individual in question, I hope you'll devote your impressive industriousness to helping chess rather than spamming, trolling and slandering those who don't completely agree with you about Susan Polgar and women's chess.
We now return to our regularly scheduled blog.
Alexander Kosalinsky
Shrestha Keshav
David Arutinian
Wopart
Guy Pelletier
anonymous
Sandra Tejada
Xavier
Jorge Palacios
Marek Podolsky
Josephine
R. Singh
V. Singh
Sasha Zilberman
Jacob
R. DeGuzman
Fred
H.D.
Miguel
Wolfgang
Delilah
Yolanda
Tinkerbell
Jacob Weissman
Marek Podolsky
Wojciech Blik
Upset User
Jorge Palacios
Maria Fernandez
Beautiful Bunny
Mad dog
Burt
Javier Torres
Lena Yokashvili
Luang Zhang
M. Rodriguez
(all commentators from this post) and all the rest from the earlier, Go, Nona! post (including my personal favorite, Johann Kriek, a name I remember from 1970s tennis):
You have been banned.
I found it a little curious that "Go, Nona!" had no commentators for six days, but a deluge of posters starting Monday morning. Further, many of the posters said almost exactly the same thing: "I'm from country x and I love Nona (or Maia, or Xie Jun, etc.), but Susan Polgar was the first to earn the title and a wonderful ambassador. Can't we just agree that I'm right?"
Virtually all demonstrated a curious immunity to my pleas to consider my arguments, while fluffy's sub-thread was met by abuse and a similar general disregard for the arguments he offered. And that's too bad, because both discussions raised interesting issues worthy of consideration.
In any case, my "many" respondents shared not only exceptionally similar viewpoints and ways of expressing them; it turns out, by a no doubt astonishing coincidence, that they share a common IP address as well. In short, all of the above are the same person, or at most, a very small group of people sharing the same computer or local network. It certainly isn't a collection of diverse, independent people from around the globe; rather, it's just a cheap stunt by (probably) one individual who misguidedly thinks this will improve Susan Polgar's reputation and help her cause.
My apologies to my readers for not detecting the fraud sooner. Live and learn! As for the individual in question, I hope you'll devote your impressive industriousness to helping chess rather than spamming, trolling and slandering those who don't completely agree with you about Susan Polgar and women's chess.
We now return to our regularly scheduled blog.
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Wednesday September 14, 2005 at 4:50pm
By the way, it's not possible technically speaking for the gateway to be the cause. A router could be, but that would only indicate it is a small team of users...still it sounds more likely that its just one person with too much time.
Keep up the good work! :)
And, to fluffy and Dennis...Susan is a lovely person and is doing the right thing for chess. Maurice is also doing a great job. Both of them have learned how to make themselves heros to the very young. This is how you get people hooked on this wonderful game. Get them young and give them heros. I started young, but never had a chess hero.... Nona only became my hero after I was grown.
Both of you are grown (I think), so you don't react in the same way. And yes, little girls need an extra boost because they have been ignored by the chess world for too long. That is why they are, in general, not at the same level as men. But just wait another 5 or ten years and see what Susan's methods have produced. I'm sure you can both be patient that long. Then you will eat your words.
hugs
The internet is an amazing vehicle that brings a variety of educated viewpoints together, and let's hope it stays that way.
Thank you for your comments. I have a young daughter and I hope she gains an appreciation for the game. If Susan Polger’s efforts help in that, all the better. She and her advisors have clearly put a great deal of thought into how she presents herself. She herself made that clear in a post on the Daily Dirt a few weeks (months?) ago. Whether or not she expected it, she has managed to turn some people off and whoever it was who pull this stunt did her much more harm that good.
That is the most unfortunate part of this episode (and I bet it gave Dennis a headache).
Andrew