There's been a lot more forum threads posted recently since we've seen a 300 member increase in the last week! It's pretty exciting to see a lot of new people around.
That being said, if you've been in the Chess.com Community club, you've probably also seen what increases when members increase... spam. In the last week I've had to delete 6 forum threads for being completely off-topic or low-effort which is why you might've gotten a few errors when clicking on notifications for this club.
For example, some posts are like this:
Or like this:
hi
As a reminder, 2800+ people get a notification whenever you post a forum thread, simply posting a board without anything else at all does not qualify as a post that has effort put into it and is spam and wastes everybody's time. At the very least, explain the context behind the post (i.e., why is this interesting?) and perhaps provide some analysis. As long as the bare minimum is done and the post is custom variants related, then we don't really mind; heck, post Lichess related stuff for all I care
P.S., mini-modding is disallowed per the forum rules. I know a lot of the rule-breaking stuff is obvious and I've been lax about enforcing this particular rule; but please do not link your fellow players to information that is not relevant to them (e.g., someone makes a post about a variant they made that they thought was cool and 50 people spam the "requirements for submission" link in the thread).
If you want to submit a variant for review, please check the pinned threads in the forum! In addition, https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/custom-variants-club-directory is an extremely helpful resource with multiple guides that I have compiled of how to submit variants, make variants, terminology, etc.
As always, please review the forum rules at https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/forum-rules-12. Even though it's been 3 years, the rules still remain the same, but you should still definitely look at them from time to time.
Hello all!
There's been a lot more forum threads posted recently since we've seen a 300 member increase in the last week! It's pretty exciting to see a lot of new people around.
That being said, if you've been in the Chess.com Community club, you've probably also seen what increases when members increase... spam. In the last week I've had to delete 6 forum threads for being completely off-topic or low-effort which is why you might've gotten a few errors when clicking on notifications for this club.
For example, some posts are like this:
Or like this:
hi
As a reminder, 2800+ people get a notification whenever you post a forum thread, simply posting a board without anything else at all does not qualify as a post that has effort put into it and is spam and wastes everybody's time. At the very least, explain the context behind the post (i.e., why is this interesting?) and perhaps provide some analysis. As long as the bare minimum is done and the post is custom variants related, then we don't really mind; heck, post Lichess related stuff for all I care
P.S., mini-modding is disallowed per the forum rules. I know a lot of the rule-breaking stuff is obvious and I've been lax about enforcing this particular rule; but please do not link your fellow players to information that is not relevant to them (e.g., someone makes a post about a variant they made that they thought was cool and 50 people spam the "requirements for submission" link in the thread).
If you want to submit a variant for review, please check the pinned threads in the forum! In addition, https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/custom-variants-club-directory is an extremely helpful resource with multiple guides that I have compiled of how to submit variants, make variants, terminology, etc.
As always, please review the forum rules at https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/forum-rules-12. Even though it's been 3 years, the rules still remain the same, but you should still definitely look at them from time to time.
Happy variant creating!