Chess.com Community Policies

Effective date: March 25, 2019

Chess.com has become the largest online chess community with millions of active members representing every country on the planet. Our goal is to create a fun, safe, and fair place for all chess fans to enjoy the game.

We encourage all members to treat others how they would like to be treated and to follow the specific guidelines below. Players and community members who are unable to follow these rules will be subject to warnings, restricted privileges, separated playing pools, or even having their accounts closed.

Community Conduct Policy

• Be kind, helpful, and forgiving
• Do not abuse, attack, threaten, discriminate, or mistreat other members in any way
• Do not hijack threads, troll, or post distracting or meaningless content
• Do not post spam, advertisements, or copy/paste comments and messages
• Do not excessively promote your club
• Do not publicly debate religious or political topics
• Do not post obscene or pornographic content
• Do not discuss illegal activities
• Do not open more than one account

Sportsmanship Policy

• Do not abort games frequently
• Do not make your opponents wait unnecessarily
• Do not disconnect or quit without resigning when lost
• Do not harass or accuse your opponents

Fair Play Policy

• Do not get help from any other person, player, or coach
• Do not allow anyone else to use your account or access anyone else's account
• Do not use chess engines, bots, plugins or any tools that analyze positions during play
• You may use Opening Explorer or other opening books without engine evaluations in Daily chess only
• Do not artificially manipulate ratings, matches, or game outcomes
• Do not interfere with the game-play of other members
• You may not use tablebases, or any other resources which reveal the best move
• Do not "blunder check" or do any analysis of your games in progress
• If you suspect your opponent is using outside help, this is not an excuse for you to do the same. Please report the player

If you have any questions about our policies, please reach out to our Support Team.

https://www.chess.com/community

Thanks for sharing Joakim, its good to have a refresher of them 

Should be posted as forum in every group! 

Thanks for sharing! 

There is a link at the bottom of every page to "Community Policies".

It took me time before I clicked on that link at the bottom. I like Ammerbucher's idea about posting this forum, or alternatively, your club's rule prominently as a stuck forum in your club.

For additional guidelines, see:

Guidelines for Personal Interactions
https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/guidelines-for-personal-interactions-2

So one of the rules says you can't copy and paste messages? Why is that?

Good question. TOS explains it this way:

You agree to not use the Service to

• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that includes the personal information of anyone else without their permission or that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, rights of publicity or other proprietary rights of any party;
• disrupt the normal flow of dialogue or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real time exchanges;

https://www.chess.com/agreement

Just going to say they HAVE them, so they can USE them any time, but I see multiple violations of them almost every single day I log on - as I'm sure most of the rest of you do as well. 

The enforcement of said "rules" is, at times it seems, rather arbitrary and unevenly applied. 

I have a slightly different take. First, chess.com staff cannot be at all places at all times, they are relying on members reporting and including screenshots and specifics. Second, when you report, it may not lead to a mute or ban immediately. Sometimes, it leads to a warning or building a case for a mute or ban should the member continue violating the community policy in substantial ways.

I think the copy,paste function is for people on chat or forums that will spam the whole page with a million copy and paste messages , i am really confident that if you copy and paste something proper in two or three chess clubs is perfectly fine.  If you copy paste 

/////////death and destruction /////// 

/////////death and destruction /////// 

/////////death and destruction /////// 

/////////death and destruction /////// 

a million types you will be probably get muted ...