Perhaps you should direct your questions to management.
Go to the help and support page listed at the bottom of this page.
Likely will take a day or two, I am a greeter for a year now or close.
No there is no awards, but I like your idea about a trophy, a great idea by the way. And possibly the trophy could have a counter on the number of games that one has been a greeter, just to keep track of our participation.
Get ready for a whole lot of games that time out after three moves.
Yours get to three moves? Lucky...
If you are a greeter just expect to have 90% of your games aborted within the first 2 moves.
Erick said somewhere that what people are looking for as a new member is to play live chess.
His welcoming message is very clear to redirect the new members to live chess if that is the option that they want.
However that does not seem to be the whole or entire solution to the dilemna as still today greeters quit the game between 1 to 5 moves.
What are they looking for? what is their age group? What is their understanding of the site and what it can offer.
What can we do and how can we ask these new greeters what they are looking for or what they would like to know that they do not understand?
I have sent message to about only 20 new greeters asking them why they quit and what are they looking for or what their expectations were.
No one ever replied.
The ball in in our court and chess.com to find the answer.
I found my greeter most helpful answering simple questions while beating me.
Perhaps people join chess.com, and either get annoyed because they keep clicking on Member-only fetures (I used to get really annoyed about that), or just do it once, just for an evening and then give up. I imagine 30% of people who join dn't keep on it for more than a week. Thus, they lose their greeter game and never use the account again.
To everyone on Chess.com:
Do not become a greeter. It is a waste of your time and energy. You play too many games which go on for up to 2 moves at best, and get no reward. If there was a reward, there might be a purpose to these pointless games, but unfortunatly chess.com expects you to do it for nothing. My message to you, chess-playing community, is DO NOT BECOME A GREETER.
I just do it to help chess.com out. I figure someone was nice enough to play a greeter game against me when I joined, so why not. Plus, I like to play wacky openings in games that don't count, and won't make it to move 5 anyway.
They don't expect you to do it, it's an option. I've played a fair few greeter games that went on 40 moves plus and once or twice the newcomer has won (obviously not their first ever game). Why would you put such an unhelpful message up. If you think that playing a few greeter game moves and talking to a new person on the site is considered a waste of time, what do you call your post?
Do become a greeter as you will at times meet great people and it is worth the wait.
If you are not a greeter you will miss that pearl!
My greeter became my friend on chess.com!
I had no greeter. I just played a game.
I have played my greeter quite a few games since our original game . He was a great introduction to this site and is on my friends list. It takes a person of great patience to deal with many of the drop out s and other issues but a good greeter is a great ambassador to chess.com
I used to be a greeter... and until I became one I hadn't realized exactly how many people can't stand a so called "emo". I soon gave up after reporting at least 30 of them.
i greeted got 40 games 39 lost on time out within the first 3 moves and just 1 kept on playing, after that match she wanted a rematch i accepted a game which to timed out within 4 moves
and after that i quickly gave up on greeting
Yes, sadly many of the games you play as a greeter will be abandoned by new members but for the few new members who stay the greeter/welcome games are important to start them off on a positive note.
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