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On a regular basis I read comments about people being verbally abused on chess.com. Although I believe this site to be one of the better communities what do people think of a proposal to introduce a system of feedback similar to EBay ie where opponents have the opportunity to give positive, neutral and negative feedback about their opponent? The percentage of good feedback for a player could then be used to set criteria for tournaments or 1-2-1 challenges. eg >95% positive feedback required to enter a tournie.
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So...then everybody would be thumbs-downing people they just lost to?
A small proportion may do that, but as we all run the same risk of experiencing a person who gives negative feedback simply becasue they lost, the relative scores would still be useable.
This has all been discussed in depth before (as I was intimating earlier)...you might want to consult the archive for such threads.
I do agree with you wblifc.....Chess.com has a better community and do take immediate action when there is abuse or any other "strange" situations....but is my humble opinion ...introducing a system of feedback similar to eBay would open a new door for those who are just looking for trouble :)
I used to be an moderator on a site with simliar user volume as this one. Only it was a site for men about realtionships, sex, dating and women. So we had alot of moderating that involved language and other TOS violations.
Those users were generally male, anywhere from 16-49 but we had some brave women on the board as well. I found users can be petty and 1 star people if they get in an argument or flame. I've seen one user have 50 seperate posts one starred by some lame troll.
The only way this worked for us was making the star ratings invisible to users. Because the users post crybaby threads about how someone one starred all their posts. LOL It's a vicious circle... Its best not to have ratings visbile to users if at all.
You can improve the post quality and thus improve search engine rankings by moderating with an iron fist and removing useless threads. But again users just shouldn't see that stuff...
The "iron fist" routine only works if mods are consistent (one set of rules).
Thats brilliant! I think that is a great way to vet tour contestants.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is a brillant idea! We need some way to weed out the stallers that play the games they think they can win first and ignor the ones they can't. I think it goes along with my idea of tour round dead line limits, and move time. let's hope chess.com listens to posts like yours and comes up with some resolution to stalled tours. I have looked at some of my opponents and they are playing 100 to 200 games what is up with that?
They're playing too much! Thumbs down!!
On a regular basis I read comments about people being verbally abused on chess.com. Although I believe this site to be one of the better communities what do people think of a proposal to introduce a system of feedback similar to EBay ie where opponents have the opportunity to give positive, neutral and negative feedback about their opponent? The percentage of good feedback for a player could then be used to set criteria for tournaments or 1-2-1 challenges. eg >95% positive feedback required to enter a tournie.
Discuss...