CPOTM January 2012 cont.

There's going to come a point where you'll have to find the balance between your thin skin and the 200 block limit.

Chess.com allows you to see if you blocked someone in error? How does that work?

I find most people to be friendly here. In fact, I don't have a single member blocked.

I have a few  blocked, but it's mostly an empty measure as I don't start many threads here.

Most of the blocks are from my you block me/I block you policy.

Just a couple directed towards people who post a lot of anything and everything, i.e. postus vomitus.

Take Karl, as an example. We butted heads for a long time but he never blocked me. Then, one day, he pre-emptively blocked a bunch of people, including me, not because of anything we had specifically posted but in some amorphous anticipation. So after all that, he blocked me for nothing. Result: I blocked him, for what it was worth, also for nothing.

I lost all respect I had for Tudor when he implied that me telling about a childhood incident was a personel attack. That's more than just thin skinned. It's just plain STUPID.

I've blocked a few members from live chess. One of them was banned shortly after and I removed him from my list. I also blocked someone because he was spamming and I thought blocking would prevent me from reading his comments, but I was wrong so I unblocked him. The two remaining on my list are from excessive abusive chat in live chess. Their accounts still exist unfortunately.

Well, from what I've noticed on Chess.com forums, some members have posts that deserve to be made fun of, including my own of course. Some member's posts are filled with violence, propaganda, jingoism, conceit, and mental laziness. Other members are hyper-sensitive to anything other than empty-positive feedback. Some member's posts show they have no sense of humour whatsoever, while other member's posts show that they can't distinguish between what is serious, and what is not. Of course, we don't know the members beyond what they post, so there is a very good chance one is not seeing the members in a full light, but rather only in those moments they wish to have fun.

Sorry, I can't continue this post. I've written the word "member" so many times that I'm getting flushed *fans herself*.

The only people who feed off other members here are you and your people.

A curious contrast to a group that primarily feeds off of itself, but periodically invades and usurps other people's fun in the forums en-mass to do so, don't you think?  Rather than block everyone who's not in your clique, why don't you just stay in your group and perform your mutual self adulation there?

Off topic! So, am I the only person NOT watching the Super Bowl?

No, I'd say I had better ways to spend my time, but given that I'm here that's clearly not the case.

Fact is, if it's not hockey, I just don't care.

I thought what you did was wrong and I stated so. I haven't changed my mind. I still think what you did and the way you treated PK was wrong.

You obviously don't see it that way, which is fine. You have your opinion, I have mine.

Harassment and disagreement are synonyms corrijean.  If you think otherwise, well, you can stop harrassing me any time.

I don't think that's at all what I said, but you can twist my words any way you like.  I'll only view it as mildly hypocritical:

You do seem to block everybody who isn't either agreeing with you or offering condolences.

Aka wussy blocks.

The defense to thin skin is that the enemy is just terrible.

Geez lol is this thread still alive? Its like 5 days into February isn't it?

When it stops getting repeated.

I can understand that. I've heard there's some language used there at times, and why should a person subject themselves to that? I don't play much live chess, so I don't have that problem.