Hi it's me again,

Recently while playing live chess on Chess.com I've noticed quite a few players saying things in the community chat box like...." Any cute girls in here?" or "anybody looking for a girlfriend?" yunno? That sorta stuff, and it got me thinking! Is this site slowly turning into a dating site?! I mean c'mon people surely there are better sites than this to find a partner ( apart from Little Chess Partner of course)

What do you think?

 Ha-ha, I was thinking the same thing.

Hopefully Dating then Mating, it's more romantic.

Surely you can't expect Chess.com to be totally free of that which makes the rest of the world go round.

Don't knock it.

 If I see a cute girl at an OTB tournament, I'll talk to her.  I'm not big on online romance, but to each his own.  We're still playing chess.  If some fella finds a lady he likes, why not try to make something of it.  After all, she loves chess!  What more could you want in a partner?!

TAt sort of thing is harassment of women - was rampant at fics but i took strong stand for 2 years - got lots of abusive "tell"s [messages not stored on server so I can't prove that x told me y] - it has reduced drastically on fics.

Please don't let chess.com go the same way. 

Harrassment?  We're just talking about people asking if there are cute girls or other such innocent things.  Where's the harrassment?

 Not exclusively, but his ratio is pretty high.  Also, where there's a photo album with pictures of a lady, there you'll find Rael's comment.

Thats for the humour this morning Guys ..

Mating for chess "Queen and King"

Dating for "pawn"

maybe there should be some kind of thread for meeting people.

I'm not a big fan of people talking like that on chatboxes, but sometimes it can be amusing:) Its funny how people start talking big when they are more or less anonymous. 

Im still here for chess,  but I think the discussions are a nice addition for conversation.