Blocking Members Manifesto

  I am sure you are aware of certain players who are inconsiderate idiots who are not here to play chess but just to give grief. 

   They only constitute a small percent of the community. But that is the problem. Even if they are 1 percent, currently the number of chess.com members are in millions. That means certainly these troublemakers surely now number in thousands. 

   Yet chess.com only allow you to block 200 members. This was ok in the beginning, when there was only a few members. 

  I suggest, for the love of everyones sanity, to increase the  number of memebers we can block.

The problems is that I think  a lot of these members are creating multiple accounts. 

Please I don't want to play anyone with the word 'killer' in their name! or just a bunch of numbers or 'qwertyuio'.

Anyone who is so casual about such small matters are going to be extremely blind to the bigger things. They just don't care.

And I would like to play with people who do. 

I only want to play with decent people. Let me block these losers.

Increase the maximum amount of blocks!!!!

Power to the people!

If you have blocked more than 200 members is might be time  to look at yourself.

Probably a good point.

+1

Ah yes good, the Mirror argument. It is like telling the rape victim, you should take a look at yourself.  Insightful and self-satisfying but unhelpful. Maybe she shouldn't go out at night, or in certain part of the town, but certain facts remain unresolved.

Anyway.

I think I should have been clear that I was talking about players in bullet chess.

I haven't played the longer (20 mins and above games), so maybe the people there have better self-control.

But yes, I am just bringing this to chess.com's attention, hoping that they might be able to improve the system.

As for blocking 200 members, I was going through the list, and a lot of the accounts have been deleted by chess.com. That means their bad behavior was not just on a single occasion, but across the board. 

   However their names still stay on the list, so that if they create multiple accounts, you have no way to block them. Who knows maybe it's just one guy with 200 accounts?

Yes I was in fact talking about you in the bullet chess

you consider not being able to block more than 200 people on a chess website as bad as rape?

who cares if someone insults you or has a name you find disturbing, its the internet, deal with it.

I don't think billyblatt can really deal with that.

Same here (and have had some cow patty flung in at me).

@kco ... Ad hominem fallacy. Blame the victim. Excellent choice of misdirection, high success rate. A favourite of politicians the world over.

@Fear_Itself ... Straw man fallacy. He did not say it was as bad as rape; he offered it as 'blame the victim' (a poor choice of parallel on his part, but the intent was clear enough to anyone with the brains to learn the rules of chess). Another excellent choice of misdirection, also with a high success rate, also a favourite of politicians the world over.

@BorgQueen ... That's because we like you. We really, really like you. Or maybe you don't know where to go to block.

I've encountered at least 100 opponents I would block if the page didn't take so long to navigate to. It's my choice to block time-outers, insulters, game-tossers, whatever, as it also is the OP's. There are some hard-core internet behaviour cases here, and I see no need for me (or anyone else) to encounter them a second time.

I've been blocked only once and it's a funny story.  I complimented a lady on her calculation and she took it to mean I was accusing her of being a calculating gold digger or something and told me she wasn't that calculating. 

I didn't know whether to try to explain it or just laugh it off and leave her be. Since, she blocked me though, it just seemed to take care of itself. Anyone that sensitive, self-conscious and so quick to misconstrue would probably be more of a burden than a blessing anyway so to speak, so it worked out the way it was supposed to, especially since she was calling me baby (and not in the infant sense) the night before. lol.

A little too much yin and yang yo-yo roller coaster bipolar type for my liking.

Oh, who am I kidding...if you're reading this, I'm sorry...hit me up.

Not serious. 

I understood the intent clearly, though I don't agree with how it was presented.

I do not think it was simply a 'poor choice' by accident. OP is over playing the situation, attempting to make it appear worse than it really is by using extreme examples.

While it isn't following OP's original direction of the topic, I think these things should still be pointed out. He isn't worth taking seriously if he is intent on playing drama queen rather than presenting a balanced argument.

Gosh.....u have 200 ppl blocked already???  maybe you should  not let things bother u so much OR  learn how to ignore comments that are not positive perhaps?  I had no idea you could block up to 200 ppl....hmmmm   good luck!

@ billyblatt

Handy Tip: Go through your blocked list, entry by entry and you will discover that many are now closed accounts. Delete these entries from your list (pointless and needlessly wasteful to block ex-members), thereby giving you space to block fresh irritants.

Good advice, Doggy.

After I read all the comments I began to wonder was it really me that was perhaps overeacting (oh he's playin a3 again!!!!; what I have clear positional advantage and he wants a queen exchange!!!).

 @borgqueen and anabella and kco I hope you don't mind but I looked up at how many bullet games you have played, and the number seems quiet small.  Well below 100. 

So the chances of meeting gothams finest are quie  few. If you play a few hundred, you'll get to meet the others.

@fear you can insert whatever you want in place of rape, lying, cheating,  the GFC; it doesn't matter the measure of the crime, it is the thing itself, that matters. If somebody is doing something wrong, then that act is a wrong. Yes, it might be a good idea to lock up windows, and doors; to teach kids about stranger danger; and make wise financial decision etc.

But you cannot disregard the act, and say we should be more careful. Or not take it personally. And if someone says something why do we feel they should just keep quiet and suck it up.

If someone is being harmed, you cannot say it is not that important. Or that you argument isn't good enough so you don't deserve to be heard, or we have all suffered so just deal with it.

If it is not good, and something can be done, isn't it a wise thing to do to take some measure to protect others? 

I will never block someone unless they are constantly harassing me. But so far I have no one blocked.

Yeah, Chess.com, can you insert an option to block ALL Chess.com members? I really hate people here.

What's the old saying, "I love business. I just hate having to deal with the customers." lol.

@billyblatt: I understand that after playing some 6000 games here you've seen a lot of misbehavior. Maybe just unblock the closed accounts, that should give you a nice buffer again.