I just got an email from an anonymous moderator with links to screen shots of a Mason Malmuth post in the mod forum on Two Plus Two. The post states basically that the content of Two Plus Two forum that Two Plus Two publishing owns is hurting their book sales, and urges mods to delete stickies. He is encouraging the moderators to make strategy discussion harder to find and harder to come by. His fear is that the posters on the forum know more than his authors and write better than his authors therefore the strategy discussion on the site could hurt his book sales.

Mason Malmuth Post in Moderator forum to limit and delete strategy articles to help ailing book sales.
Mason Malmuth Mod Scandal Post

“Having links to top quality posts may be serving as substitute for book purchases.”

Here is Ed Miller’s response to the alleged pressure he received from Mason Malmuth:

Ed Miller given ultimatum

Ed Miller apparently cornered into this new policy at TWO PLUS TWO by ultimatum given to him by Mason Malmuth to either delete and limit free content or close down the NPA Forums.

This is email from moderator exactly how it was received:
The following was posted today on two plus two but obvuiously it was quickly deleted.

Before it was deleted it was confirmed by other moderators as well as external evidence.

Apparently, Mason Malmuth made a post in the mod forum encouraging the moderators to make strategy discussion harder to find and harder to come by. His fear is that the posters on the forum know more than his authors and write better than his authors therefore the strategy discussion on the site could hurt his book sales.

Additionally, he apparently intimidated and coerced Ed Miller into taking free strategy content off of his own websiet because he believes that it would hurt book sales.

Mason Malmuth — actively going out of his way to sabatoge the quality of his own forum. Does that reall surprise anyone?

Links to a screen shot of Mason’s post as well as Ed Miller’s post in response.

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