erik, we are frustrated

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.

I'm pretty sure this is the 4th forum named this

I think so!

Basically, any site closures shouldn't remove content is the suggestion. From a back-end perspective, a difference between a closure that will kill all content (one that would hit a spammer for example or extremely abusive member with little useful content ) and one that would leave all content. The latter idea would certainly require manual cleanup if a longstanding member suddenly became abusive.

edit: Also that mutes shouldn't remove existing content, just prevent new content until the mute is lifted.

I stand corrected now.

i would think it would be easy to navigate your own site and scroll past the bullsh*t? i do not have the ability to get rid of the posts that are here along with the relevant conversation.

EDIT: yes, i know i can block, but i really do not want to restrict others from expressing themselves. i regularly utilize what seems to be a rare ability to read, scroll through garbage, and not post.

martin is right. 

there was a suggestion made to you many moons ago that, if a member is muted, only their posts vanish. that was ignored. it was not a suggestion by me, but i like it and i think you should consider it. 

when people leave when muted, their topics and posts should not vanish permanently. it is odd that there are many that have the "closed: abuse" next to their name and we can still see what the cheaters and miscreants wrote, but those that have left after a muting have all posts gone.

you also must admit that some of the mutings are wrong. bots cannot discern.  

there is a difference between spammers and regular members that the site seems to have a hard time determining. my examples of rjc and ghost of pushwood bear this out.