erik, we are frustrated

Muting code touches every content area on site, from forums, to blogs, comments on games/tactics/news/articles/etc. While much of that is likely modular, a small change can have ripple effects in mutiple locations on the site and can cause bugs in unexpected places.

A lot of the time, the desire of a mute is to hide all content and not just prevent future content. So, to get the process to handle both removing all old content (to cover spammers, abusers, etc) and an option to keep content and just stop new posting, requires new code that has to be created, integrated and tested in all content areas.

It likely comes down to ROI. It takes real time and money to assign programming and QA resources to implement changes and if the return in value isn't high enough (value does not necessarily mean monetarily) then those changes don't happen or are put so far down the priority list that they may never get done.

why hasn’t AlCzervik been promoted to site designer, that’s what frustrates me.

"I don't see why a small change isn't easy"

This is what every beginner programmer says.

"I made a minecraft mod"

lol.

I've done it for years.

The mod was just spare time.

Google dunning kruger graph.

Unfollowing by the way.

You're a kid. You already confirmed this to me via private message. You know very little about anything.

I know what that phenomenon is. It's a psychology term referring to a person's overconfidence in a particular area. A god complex, almost.

Now, I may not have expertise in that many fields of programming, but I know enough to point out that as long as there aren't that many references to the chunk of code removed, it will be fine. In this case, there's a lot.

A kid? Seriously? When did I say that?

You talked about the college you were hoping to go to.

Which means you're a teenager.

Which means you're a kid... not that I couldn't have figured it out from your posts.

But you're obviously not liquid stinking fking garbage, like most of the people here. Your comparatively minor flaw is thinking you know things you don't.

Well, at least I'm not garbage. Even though we disagree in terms of what I know, that's quite minor. Just take a look at the Off-Topic section.

no prodigies allowed here, kiddo.

Did I ever say I was a prodigy? Or a kid, for that matter.

i am not sure, there would be quite a bundle of posts to check, man.

Good point. Then why did you assume I was a prodigy (or claiming to be one)?

i didn’t assume anything, i made a joke “ no prodigies allowed”. sorry it was a bit more intellectual than it should have been.

I like an intellectual idea. It's just I take things too literally. This meme describes it well:

Sorry - can someone TL;DR me on the request here? That if an account is closed, their TOPICS stay live, even if their posts are gone? 

If I remember correctly (someone correct me if I'm wrong), the request was that if an account is closed, that their topics don't get closed. The argument is one thread may have value to the community, so even if they violated the ToS on another thread, that doesn't warrant all their threads closed. Now, I get if a topic that is heated is enough and will continue to cause harm, that is when it is warranted. That's my take on it, anyway.

Also, I do agree with the OP. The auto-bots need to be trained better with more data, so they can recognize when it' actually best to take action. Along with the auto-mute system (which I've seen members I know get muted because of one person) is quite easy to manipulate. In the distant future, I could imagine neural networks coming into play, as you could easily use them with the auto-bots, fair play system, and maybe even an official Chess.com engine. The resources to go into such a project would be quite expensive, but the implications don't just end at lowely auto-bots!

Hey, you're back! You and @Itude were the 2 members I was thinking about with the auto-mute. Definitely needs change.