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Bro12Bob
Mar 22, 2025
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#41
It’s to way to many ban attackers in chess.com!
> To get banned, you have to do something very serious against chess.com's rules.
Not always. There once was a guy cursing in chats from many accounts with the same name but different indexes (like xxx20, xxx21 etc). One day the chess.com staff decided to ban all xxx accounts. The problem is that not all xxx accounts belonged to that abuser and at least a couple of innocent players who also had names similar to xxx were banned as well.
Bro12Bob wrote:
It’s to way to many ban attackers in chess.com!
It's not chess.com's fault that some clubs just blindly promote unknown users into admin status.
A reasonable club can't be "ban attacked".
Mar 24, 2025
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#45
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/clubs-and-teams/have-you-been-the-victim-of-a-ban-attack-tell-us-here-so-we-can-help-you
magipi hat geschrieben:
Bro12Bob wrote:
It’s to way to many ban attackers in chess.com!
It's not chess.com's fault that some clubs just blindly promote unknown users into admin status.
A reasonable club can't be "ban attackedI
It’s mostly true, but in some cases the club owners are actually forced to cooperate. If they don’t, the attacker mass report them using alt accs or friends, and they end up getting banned. So yeah, it’s often due to negligence, but sometimes they’re just stuck and can’t do much about it.
Apr 21, 2025
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#47
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magipi hat geschrieben:
Bro12Bob wrote:
It’s to way to many ban attackers in chess.com!
It's not chess.com's fault that some clubs just blindly promote unknown users into admin status.
A reasonable club can't be "ban attackedI
It’s mostly true, but in some cases the club owners are actually forced to cooperate. If they don’t, the attacker mass report them using alt accs or friends, and they end up getting banned. So yeah, it’s often due to negligence, but sometimes they’re just stuck and can’t do much about it.
Mass reporting will not result in a ban if the reported member did nothing against the TOS
Oh okay, then everybody should know that, because I’ve seen some people give up their club just because they didn’t know that
Apr 21, 2025
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#50
JayThe10th wrote:
#inb4thelock cause name calling isn't allowed on CC.
I think it's ok because they're already banned
plis ban the koń+hetman
Liel2012 wrote:
Oh okay, then everybody should know that, because I’ve seen some people give up their club just because they didn’t know that
You seem to not even realize how dumb that is.
Some random guy starts making nonsense threats about mass reporting and such, and they believe it?
Apr 21, 2025
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#53
magipi wrote:
Liel2012 wrote:
Oh okay, then everybody should know that, because I’ve seen some people give up their club just because they didn’t know that
You seem to not even realize how dumb that is.
Some random guy starts making nonsense threats about mass reporting and such, and they believe it?
Random guy?? who are you talking to?
magipi wrote:
Liel2012 wrote:
Oh okay, then everybody should know that, because I’ve seen some people give up their club just because they didn’t know that
You seem to not even realize how dumb that is.
Some random guy starts making nonsense threats about mass reporting and such, and they believe it?
I wouldn't be so dismissive.
Up until relatively recently such an attack may have been possible because of this: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/muting-of-admins
It's been fixed now though.
Although I understand even back then it only resulted in people getting temporarily muted, it wasn't a permenant problem; apart from getting some scary-sounding automated messages.
