It is a real shame to see very inappropriate ads on chess.com especially during playing chess with serious opponents.  I was playing chess when suddenly an offensive ad belong to Zoosk which is a flirting site came up.  I was absolutely shocked to see it! Chess is a very serious and even holy game and I wonder why chess.com should allow such perverse sites to advertise on it.  Is money so important that chess.com should lower itself to such a low level. In chess there is no place for sex! Chess.com is earning itself a very bad repute by associating with such corrupt sites.  I hope next time I won't face porno clips instead!! May God save chess.

And if not God, then may Burt Reynolds save chess.

zukertort70, dramatize much? I cannot tell whether you're serious or trolling.

You are overreacting. I don't see how you could be so offended by a flirting site.

Imagine those folks visiting porno sites and seeing ads for chess.com.  Now, that's embarassing!

Yeah those sinful flirting sites contaminate the holyness of this game. Sinful, sinful sites!

THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN

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 Trolling.

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Assuming he is, then I almost fell for it. What in the world makes Chess such a holy game? 

Maybe you should pay for a membership so you don't have to see the ads.

WHAT!!!

or humanities sake I hope you are trolling which is much better than assuming a consious person wrote that sincerely...

Good Day, Long Live The Flying Spaghetti Monster and his Meatball Son

I've never heard chess described as holy and cannot be offended because someone too cheap to buy a membership is opposed to flirting websites.

corrijean wrote: Maybe you should pay for a membership so you don't have to see the ads. Detto.

Well, if these ads keeping coming up, I'll inform social security people for child abuse.  There are many children and young people under the age of 16 who play chess on chess.com and it's illigal to expose these children to sex ads etc. Therefore, it's best to eliminate the fliting sites as soon as possible so that everyone can feel comfortable playing chess on here.

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Flirting = Sex

 

How times have changed.

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Assuming that you are actually serious (which I am still having trouble trusting), you are off-base in several ways.

1) I don't use, nor have I ever used, Zoosk, but as far as I have been able to determine, Zoosk is not a sex or pornography site. It is a dating site. A dating site is not remotely illegal or immoral, as people have every right to meet one another on the Internet if they so choose. Exposing children to this is not in the least unreasonable.

You have offered no evidence that Zoosk is a wholly inappropriate service to advertise on Chess.com, other than brazenly and rashly calling it (falsely, most likely) a "perverse site" and a "corrupt site." This is not evidence.

2) You are wasting your effort reporting this. You have immediately presumed that Chess.com is the enemy due to these ads' presence, and are attempting to raise a stink and rally members to your side against Chess.com. What you should have done was quietly and privately made your discontentment known to Chess.com directly, allowing them to correct the problem, which is in this case nonexistent. Only when the website ignored and/or defied your report should you have brought this before the main forums. (If you have, indeed, told Chess.com your qualms originally, you have not told us anything about this.)

3) You have offered no evidence or explanation that Chess is a "holy" game. This causes you to look like nothing more than an emotional, enraged, irrational troublemaker. Your credibility is drastically crippled by this persona in the eyes of other members.

And, just in case this is all just a fun-and-games trolling charade, and you do not intend to be taken seriously, then... um... OOOOOOOOHHHHHH, BUUURRRRRRRRN! 

The children on this site should not be encouraged to join dating sites (unless they're over 18) and I'm very confident their parents would agree.

There are tons and tons of other advertisers out there, chess.com need not resort to patronizing dating websites as advertisers.

sftac

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In the UK, people can legally have sex (and get married) at sixteen. I'm aware that some other countries have an even lower age of consent.

 

Other life outside the bubble.

Oh, I'm sure having sex and getting married as young as 16 is manageable in most Western countries (hard to say which comes first, though -- needing to get married because of sex, or needing to have sex because of marriage). 

But I think it inappropriate to promote high risk (dating) activities amongst the juveniles on this site.  Even if the offspring eventually join chess.com.

sftac

"I believe in making the world a better place for our children, but not for our children's children, because I don't think our children should be having sex." - Jack Handey