Incredible toxicity in the chess community

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BigChessplayer665
TumoKonnin wrote:
Optimissed hat geschrieben:
TumoKonnin wrote:
Optimissed hat geschrieben:
DiogenesDue wrote:
Optimissed wrote:

There are a few working together on Chess.com. That makes it a bit worse, especially given chess.com's rules. Psychopaths have no difficulty working within those rules whereas healthy people don't want to, which gives psychopaths a big advantage here.

Making up stuff about other people is toxic.

When it concerns you and you have been making things up about others on a massive scale. Finally you understand how others feel about you.

I think you’re talking about yourself.

And I think you are one of these "people" who appears when their master is losing an argument because more than one honest person is making the same case against him and his henchmen.

I'll go further. There is no honest person on these forums who would support him.

Wow, describing yourself in detail is crazy

I think optimissed likes to out himself...

DiogenesDue
Optimissed wrote:

Also, if he will stop attacking me and others and stop attacking those who make good arguments against what he says, insulting them and lying about them, and if he will stop supporting his obvious cronies, then I will have no need to tell the truth about him. But while he tries to maintain his reign of fear, which is what it is since most people have a thinner skin than I do and they don't like being attacked by him and so they avoid him and never confront him, then people like me will be able to stop telling the truth about the way he is allowed to basically frighten people into pretending not to disagree with him.

I think the situation is more serious than many think and it is actually our democracy which is under threat. Democacy may not be the greatest way to run things but so far, we humans haven't managed to find anything better. I quite like the idea that everyone has a voice. Even ill-informed people, because that provides an avenue for them to engage with others and, hopefully, learn. But learning is not via coercion and threats. Those with different opinions and even those who are mistaken must not be closed down by making fun of them, being aggressive to them, lying about them and all the rest of the things these trolls try to carry out for political reasons.

It's understandable that no political discussion is allowed here. The same goes for religious discussion when it's understood how political and religious discussion have caused bad feeling and wars. However, it does make it very hard to challenge someone, who may seem to be acting as they are for political reasons.

Quoting for posterity. I'm apparently Trump, in Optimissed's contorted little world where he makes political posts while trying to pretend it's the other guys...

A threat to democracy! Right here on the chess.com forums...be afraid.

DiogenesDue
Optimissed wrote:
Laskersnephew wrote:

It's not just Chess.com, the entire internet is full of ugly, negative trolls. But here's an important piece of chess (and life) advice: pay no attention to those nasty, negative trolls! They mean nothing. Chess improvement requires a certain amount of hard work and self-discipline. And if you allow yourself to be distracted or discouraged by trolls and naysayers, you won't improve

There are a few working together on Chess.com. That makes it a bit worse, especially given chess.com's rules. Psychopaths have no difficulty working within those rules whereas healthy people don't want to, which gives psychopaths a big advantage here.

You do this hatchet job on every thread you see the smallest possible opening for it, and it's a form of harassment...and about time the mods did something about it.

Thee_Ghostess_Lola

oh gawd...he found us opti

DiogenesDue
Thee_Ghostess_Lola wrote:

oh gawd...he found us opti

Been posting on this thread for at least 3 years.

Thee_Ghostess_Lola

well then maybe u should pack a duffle

DiogenesDue
Thee_Ghostess_Lola wrote:

well then maybe u should pack a duffle

No thanks. This thread is mostly full of nonsense. See Adair_6969 above (although this spamming will probably not last long).