theoreticalboy wrote: Where do we go to request better emoticons, by the way?
Ya gotta add yer own . . . 
--Cystem
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Looks like my niece...
The usual small faces are okay with me, but the selection here is pretty dire. The last message board had ones so good I kept coming back even after my infatuation with the subject had waned (of course I lied to myself, claiming it was the quality of people, but really I hate everyone. There's just nothing like a good :wtf: face appended to a post!)
Feb 23, 2010
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#164
below made me think of flags. It's the expression I imagine on his face while he types.
Feb 23, 2010
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#165
On other websites, when people have a problem with the privacy policy, they ask about it, and rally support around it. And more often than not, the site takes notice. Facebook has learned this lesson many times. Google just re-learned it recently with Google Buzz.
Feb 23, 2010
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#166
ozzie_c_cobblepot wrote:
On other websites, when people have a problem with the privacy policy, they ask about it, and rally support around it. And more often than not, the site takes notice. Facebook has learned this lesson many times. Google just re-learned it recently with Google Buzz.
Lol I think that I can see some contradiction in rallying public support to protect privacy... but that's the Internet. Maybe even life.
Well, it is only your decision and your wish that matter, after all is said and done.
I like to think that goodness in people come from a strong desire to survive what is bad out there. We all have the unspoken responsibility to look out for each other, because it is the human decent thing to do. We can write in jest or be serious in our posts. But we cannot be assured how our posts will be accepted, no matter how many applicable inserted emotions we include to send messages.
Reasonable people take on life with a grain of salt, usually. But we must recognize that there are unreasonable people who go ape crazy enough to do crazy things like stalking and spying on people in and out of the internet.
The need to feel safe is basic human nature.
Are we all safe from the big, bad wolf? Does anybody care!?!
I wish you ALL that You want out of life. Have fun!
Feb 24, 2010
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#169
muchotoro wrote:
what happens to all the deleted information or knowledge or insight is it lost forever?
Yes it is ...
wikstrom wrote:
buster47 wrote:
wikstrom wrote:
Dear Afaf,
let me say this:
I've got accustomed to your face,
I've got accustomed to your voice (i.e. threads).....
Please, do not leave. You are one of the truly exciting persons on the site.
Unfortunately, I know far too little about your reasons to leave. I played a game with Chetumal (and had no idea she is no longer around). Neither did I see the beheading of a goat (look: perhaps a LITTLE unnecessary to show on a chess site, but OK with me).
About location: Sorry, I may be (certainly must be) dumb, but I always thought your data showed Rabat, Morocco. And I have not seen any other information. Anyways, I don't think this is very crucial.
Please stay!
Marten (wikstrom)
After the map your location should be near or on Karamzininkatu, not so nice that everybody can see where you are connected from or?
Many others have already responded. There is no accuracy whatsoever in the location given. I have no idea why my location is given at Karamzininkatu (Karamzin street) in Helsinki. The distance from there to me is some 10 km. I suspect that all players from Helsinki are put at Karamzininkatu
Yes but if you told your wife that you were doing a job in Copenhagen and she by looking at the map find out that you still are in Helsinki playing chess (or doing some other suspicious thing) she might not meet you with a kiss and a smile when heading back home. 
blackfirestorm666 wrote:
muchotoro wrote:
what happens to all the deleted information or knowledge or insight is it lost forever?
Yes it is ...
When a member close their own account the staff occasionally reopens it.
Feb 24, 2010
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#172
When a member account is closed ( for whatever reason) everything they have posted disappears from public view. Its not deleted, nor is it lost forever :)
Feb 24, 2010
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#173
wikstrom wrote:
But even the scenario you suggest seems impossible to me (but I am ready to learn if I am mistaken). If I go to Copenhagen (with my laptop) and log in to chess.com from there, I suspect that the map will still show me at Karamzininkatu in Helsinki?
Yes, it will, because it makes a search on the location information you have provided and display that result. If you hadn't input any information, however, or simply delete it and leave it blank, it will track your IP and display the location of your ISP.
Anyway, glad to see Erik took notice and decided to change this.
Now the next station should be the "hide/reveal my online status" option. Let's press on
why would anybody wanna hide anyways ? I is the easiest person to find in me whole damn village - I can understand concerns that the girlies might have about location though, they should have some kinda privacy lock to keep away the pests
wikstrom wrote..................................But even the scenario you suggest seems impossible to me (but I am ready to learn if I am mistaken). If I go to Copenhagen (with my laptop) and log in to chess.com from there, I suspect that the map will still show me at Karamzininkatu in Helsinki?
No it will show Copenhagen, that's why the map is interactive.
People have been fired from their jobs caught lying on Facebook, taking day's off to see their sick mother in hospital and their employer founds out you are on Ibiza from photos posted on their profile.The interactive map can be used to a lot of things and in many countries it wouldn't be legal if you haven't been given the opportunity no to be on it (That is called privacy which still is very important to a few of us).
I see that chess.com is doing something to help solving it, although I can't understand that Eric as a privat person can't see it being a major problem.
But in the end thank you chess.com for chancing it and it still is a great site,(to me one of the best sites on the world wide net) though it is quite difficult to get through with criticism without being yield at.
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Feb 24, 2010
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#177
Well, one thing you can be sure of... I have only given Rabat, Morocco. The map has shown my actual location - which I never offered. Beyond that, I don't know how this thing works.
Dear Afaf
Get A Life
Yours sincerly
Francis
Feb 24, 2010
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#179
Anyone who hasn't read the last few pages, before responding, please read eriks (site owner) response on
posts 123, 124, 133 and 142.
kohai wrote:
Anyone who hasn't read the last few pages, before responding, please read eriks (site owner) response on
posts 123, 124, 133 and 142.
Eric also wrote "not as a site owner"
..".i'm holding my response because people tend to over-scrutinize what i say. so my opinions aren't viewed as personal opinions (which they are), but as some kind of official chess.com doctrine or something? i mean, i gave my opinion above and i'm told i act like a high school boy. i agree that i should be allowed to have opinions, and to argue them, but people hold me (fairly, or unfairly, i don't know) to a different standard. so even if i politely disagree... it doesn't matter. it' hard to try to please everyone, but also be myself. :)"
Here's some Afaf - I just got them from a GIF image site.
