Blocking Members Manifesto

As I've already stated I think it's important for the people that can't handle  the current predicament.  Did you miss that part?  If you read carefully you may also grasp that I didn't start this thread.  My apologies but I don't have the time to draw pictures for you.  Further attention to the words displayed on your screen will indicate that this issue is in the "Hot Topics," sometimes I address the Hot Topics.  This is also something I previously stated.  I'm sure you'd like me to keep repeating myself, so let's get right to the point.  What part of all the issues that I've addressed repeatedly do you not understand?

Actually, stopping to get serious in a troll thread like this one is a tactical error. Back to cat pictures. Still to come: yet more Pakin Complaint overload!

The current predicament. People can't handle it. Oh....my! 

They cant handle the truth!

And yes, do draw pictures for me. As someone pointed out in another thread, I am from Texas, so I have comprehension issues. I am very stupid. Please repeat your wisdom 10 times. Thank you so much.

I'm not surprised, but it's a waste of time for me.

Mutual non surprise. You cant post without being insulting.

Not everything that is in hot topics neccesarily deserves respect.

Clearly, most people on this thread found the idea of blocking 200 people to be laughable, not to mention probably more indightive of the the blocker rather than the blockees.

I can't imagine working so hard to balloon the list that long. 

If you have to block that many people, then ur doin it rong.

As of now, it is not classified as such legally, but rumour is legislators are working vigilantly to make the cyber crime under the same subset as cyber bullying, etc. which certainly is a step in that direction. Forum administrators and moderators would then breathe a collective sigh of relief as a simple ban hammer would now come with the added thud of the gavel to drive the point home to the thick skulls as to what will most certainly NOT be tolerated.

But of course, in your infinite wisdom, according to you (imagine that), they probably don't have the "right" or the "mental capacity" to do the work they see fit according to your classification system of labeling all who you don't agree with on a topic as "retarded". How offensive to those who either have learning disabilities or know people who do. Make sure to to poke fun at the poor, disadvantaged, abused, blind, deaf and victims of violence so they don't feel overlooked by your broadbrush insult machine.

Don't encourage them, they have enough silly rules as it is.

I think we need more flexible blocking rules.

For example, suppose I wanted to block everyone who's name rhymes with "seven" and plays the French defense but only on Tuesdays. Does chess.coms rather limited "blocking" rules allow for this variety? Huh? Huh?

Yes. You will find the blocking segmentation feature in your diamond member back office administration dashboard. It's right next to the non-premium member remote geo monitoring tab.

Man, I feel like such an idiot.

Oh wait! Texas! Doh!

No need to play coy. How else would you have known where to send, "That Guy"?

How does one block another player ?.

[COMMENT DELETED] -  It's just not worth it.

Straight from the horse's mouth!

Spartanemesis, it appears our efforts are beginning to deliver the message that it's simply not worth skirting the law for cheap thrills at another's expense. We can now expect to see the evil empire tumble like dominos one after the other, when they see their leader amending his ways.

Good work!

(Like gangbusters.)

Yet more evidence, several posts from LearningTheMoves, and no posts from Sparta.

Even if Learning the moves himself comes online and shouts out "This is NOT Sparta!", I am not sure it would help prove anything.

The evidence is mounting about sockpuppetry.

Of course, it is highly likely that there is a 3rd, invisible identity behind both, that we havent seen yet. Much like in the aliens movies.

It will be hard for me to keep them straight, but from now on when responding to Sparta's posts, I may accidentally refer to him as Learningthemoves, or vice-versa. Try not to take it personally.

Take the above post from Learningthemoves, for example. See how he refers to himself in the 3rd person? "I happen to be online at the same time as learningthemoves". Why would he post this way, unless he was really Sparta all along?

In addition to the Pakin automatic complaint generator, someone put up another website called the "Random North Korea Nuclear threat generator".

Here is the text of what I got with one run:

"We formally inform the White House and Pentagon that the ever-escalating U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK (North Korea) and its reckless nuclear threat will be smashed by the strong will of all the united service personnel and people and cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike means of the DPRK and that the merciless operation of its revolutionary armed forces in this regard has been finally examined and ratified,"

Sounds almost like the real thing.

I've changed my thinking on this. I'm OK with removing the ceiling on the number blocks one can issue, but only of it's moved to the number of blocks one can have issued against them. This will put the onus on the sensitive souls here to seek out all of the jerks so they can be sure to lay one of the first 200 blocks on them before it's too late and they're forever unblockable.

Interesting. On an unrelated note, if this gets implemented, I am going to form a "blocking" group. I need 201 members total.

I am neither Ghengis Kahn nor Ubik42 and you can quote me on record with that one