RonaldJosephCote wrote:
Erik, If a chess player hits the 1.5 Billion $$ jackpot tonight, would you be willing to sell ??
Ha! Depends on if that person really cared about the site as much as I do. I'm sure some of you would love to see me go 
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Jan 13, 2016
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Jan 13, 2016
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#503
Rsava wrote:
erik wrote:
No. You can delete your own first comment, but once you start a conversation it belongs to the community.
Then why, if the creator of a thread blocks a person, that blocked person can no longer do ANYTHING on that thread.
If the conversation really belonmgs to the community then why is anyone restricted just becasue the OP gets a wild hair up somwhere and blocks a member of the community? (Oh, and you can't even "untrack" it so you keep getting notifications when new stuff is posted.)
Great point. I will fix this.
Jan 13, 2016
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#504
SonOfThunder2 wrote:
How do you find time to still do what you like and enjoy? I mean the site is number 1 right?
I love working. Chess.com is far from what we envision. So much to do it's like a roller coaster every day.
Jan 13, 2016
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#505
Stormbringer wrote:
Hello Erik and fellow players!
Hey Erik I was wondering why there is a cap on the number of tournaments I can make? With Diamond membership I should be allowed to host a unlimited amount of events.
We do cap, but the number is pretty high for someone to be able to reasonably manage, no? If you disagree, please message me privately!
Jan 13, 2016
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#506
LegoPirateSenior wrote:
Is there going to be some way to revoke an invitation to a group, so that a person who devolved into an "undesirable" can be prevented from re-joining, posting garbage or snooping on the group content, then leaving the group befor an admin can ban him?
You can BAN someone from a group. If they keep applying, accept them, then ban them.
Jan 13, 2016
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#507
SmyslovFan wrote:
Regarding tournaments:
Are there plans for making live tournaments easier to organize?
Also, are there plans to have special rating pools similar to 1 0, 3 0, 5 0 and other rating pools on another site? An advantage of such rating pools is that it has automatic pairings and only allow players with excellent lag and low timeout rates. Such pools are almost impossible to manipulate and tend to attract the best players.
We do have some exciting plans for tournaments in the works!
As for pools, we DO use pools already! We separate out poor sports and suspicious players and new players from the main pool. But we believe that having separate ratings is probably more confusing than what most people want to deal with.
Jan 13, 2016
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#508
P_or wrote:
Really important question for erik.
erik
Have you ever blocked any member since 2007?
Yes. A handful of people have pestered me enough to deserve a block even though I have nicely asked them to stop.
Jan 13, 2016
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#509
MarcoBR444 wrote:
Erik did not answer my questions about the movies PAWN PUSHER 1, 2, 3 and 4...
Sad....................
I don't know what that is. Sorry!
Jan 13, 2016
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#510
Hey all. It's been fun. Unfortunately I have work to do and can't keep monitoring this right now. I hope to do this again soon!!
Jan 13, 2016
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#511
batgirl wrote:
The forums have a rather peculiar element. The OP is able to block members from posting.
There are times when a thread should be pristine and an OP may want to discuss a specific thing without clutter such as off-topic comments, image-spamming, ect. Yet there are other forum threads in which the OP just doesn't want to hear dissenting comments.
I think default threads should be open to everyone (taking away the ability of the OP to block anyone), but there should be an option, only available when creating the thread, to give the OP total control to delete comments/block users, and such threads would be tagged as such so anyone would know whether the thread were open or closed before posting in it.
I don't think Batgirl's post was ever answered, maybe I missed it. ?!
Is there any way in which android users can post diagrams in comments?
Not at this time. Sorry! Good idea though.