Off topic doesn't even make sense. All threads have a topic. Does chess.com mean to say that their opinion is that it's unimportant? Does off topic mean unimportant? I wonder if the staff guy that posted on here did that because he didn't want me mentioning it anymore.
Here come the darn spam threads again. Whatcha gonna do chess.com?
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May 23, 2014
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#63
I don't know. But I do know there's some cheapskate out there looking for free advertising. And eventually it will lead to us losing our forum, should things continue in this vein.
Anybody who does business with this total douche, is a total douche.
Well I'm sure there's a solution. Admittedly, I'm not tech savy but there's no way that should be able to interupt sites just willy nilly. Did I just use that for the very first time? Oh, I think I did. I should at least look up the definition first, I think it seems to fit though.
May 23, 2014
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#65
netzach wrote:
Yes.
Might be your method of copying?
This only works via highlight right mouse-click(blue) then copy/paste with "Chrome" browser.
Doesn't work on firefox or IE.
What I showed in post#47 I copy/pasted directly to here then this is the result:
Type HTML in the textarea above, and it will magic
http://www.chess.com/blog/corrijean/how-to-post-videos
May 23, 2014
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#66
Most of the spammers are by people who haven't played a single game of chess. If you put a limit of that kind, that is, you cannot post until you have played at least 10 games (after all THIS IS a chess site first), then that would make it harder for spammers.
May 23, 2014
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#68
I still say before any new member is allowed to start or post to a thread he or she has to play some chess. Perhaps 10 games. Can be blitz or live or even online. But a certain number of games have to be played before posting on the forums. And time outs don't count. No spammer is going to take the time to play through chess games just to spam these forums. Lots of easier targets out there.....
There's a member who's been here for 6 years and hasn't played 1 game of chess.
Think this through ;)...
If you force spammers and trolls to play 10 games of chess to set up their numerous accounts, it's going to inflate chess.com's rating pool. They will join, lose 10 games quickly, and then never play again. The "lost" ratings points will go to players that do not actually deserve them, and this will continue to happen every time they recycle and create a new dummy account. You will eventually end up with thousands of accounts with 0-10 records and a bunch of players with an average rating about 25-50 points higher than it should be.
You would have to force every new player's first 10 games to be unrated, which could work, but is not fair to real users. In the end, it's just not right to compromise the glicko ratings system to use as a makeshift spam blocker.
Just follow the lead of almost every large-scale social media web service and implement Captcha already... ;)
And we'll still have spam.
May 24, 2014
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#72
Spammers work off averages. It's not effective to join sites and go through the effort of playing 10 games just to get booted the first time you spam the board. Just my opinion of course. Need to do something. These vermin are getting out of hand.
Becsause it's in off topic. Dunno if it started there or was moved there.