Forums only make up a very small percentage of chess.ocm, you can have a fun time outside in groups.
Why are you caring about the forums,if you don't think the forums are good, don't post in them, let them die out, post in the good ones. Or in a group. The forums don't harm anyone, even though some of them are kinda stupid
Forums only make up a very small percentage of chess.ocm, you can have a fun time outside in groups.
Why are you caring about the forums,if you don't think the forums are good, don't post in them, let them die out, post in the good ones. Or in a group. The forums don't harm anyone, even though some of them are kinda stupid
If you don't like this thread is ok, you don't have to post here.
Forums only make up a very small percentage of chess.ocm, you can have a fun time outside in groups.
Why are you caring about the forums,if you don't think the forums are good, don't post in them, let them die out, post in the good ones. Or in a group. The forums don't harm anyone, even though some of them are kinda stupid
What nonsense...and I've even had to read the same drivel in a separate Thread you have started. Give us a break, man.
What do you mean? How is it nonsense? Can you please elaborate?
Forums only make up a very small percentage of chess.ocm, you can have a fun time outside in groups.
Why are you caring about the forums,if you don't think the forums are good, don't post in them, let them die out, post in the good ones. Or in a group. The forums don't harm anyone, even though some of them are kinda stupid
If you don't like this thread is ok, you don't have to post here.
THat's why I started a seperate one
At first I was gonna say, finally, someone who speaks my language; Defcon 1, but, not soo fast yeshman. Your profile says you've played 0 games here. So your an example of a trool, who post nonsense. You got ignored, and bored, on another site, but you just won't leave here.
The're like drunk drivers; you can't stand the damage they do, you can't stop them from getting a lisence, and you forgive the're illness.
Ronald, that may be the most bizarre analogy I've read this month
You haven't been reading my threads then 
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Trysts; He's got a thread about Hoolywood Movie Titles.
Trysts; He's got a thread about Hoolywood Movie Titles.
She might know already, but I thought it was Hollywood's Movies Titles in Other Words
Anyway I like to think of myself as the Jerry Springer of Chess.com for my trash threads!
Jerry Springer?? I'm more of a Phil Donahue man, man!
If chess.com would just have all new members that sign up from today have them pay a small fee to join then it will keep out 95% of the junk.
I know of a few other forums that have done the same to keep the quality up, not chess related.
Makes a huge difference!
I think that would cause the popularity of chess.com to drop, which is exactly the opposite of what they want. We should try to see things from the people we are critisizing's point of view once in a while.
I think that would cause the popularity of chess.com to drop, which is exactly the opposite of what they want. We should try to see things from the people we are critisizing's point of view once in a while.
True
Jerry Springer?? I'm more of a Phil Donahue man, man!
Cool I can't please everyone, but Phil's wife was hot back in the day.
. . . . one thing I remember is when they would tell newer members to look through old threads prior to creating a new one on the same subject.
That helps a little, but chess.com has always had poor search function. Some topics will jump out at you, but others, even though covered in great detail, are just about impossible to find. Most people find it much faster to just ask again.
Chess.com also makes it difficult for someone to reference a particular post that might address a question perfectly. You can't cite an old post number or thread page number with any confidence because of chess.com's policies of removing and renumbering posts and repaginating. And they made it even worse when they removed the actual time stamps a couple years ago and replaced them with the relative age stamps. Before, even without knowing the specific post number someone could pretty quickly find a post if they knew approximately when it was written. But instead of quickly zeroing in on, say, the first week of April 2011, now you're faced with an entire year's worth of posts that all say "2 years ago". Stupid move to make that change.
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You make a fair point about referencing one's questions, which is probably difficult for new members, but, this goes to my point about how staff used to post in threads and let people know how it's done here.
While I consider many longtime members to be very helpful when new members have questions, I bet there are many times they don't bother with it. Especially over the last year or so, with the influx of point hungry kiddies.
Personally, I don't have much trouble navigating any site. But, maybe it's because I'm not a chess nerd that lives in his parents basement? Ya gotta know the clientele you are catering to.
I actually had forgotten about the time stamps.
They also did away with the green square next to the posters avatar indicating that they were still online (along with that flashing thing).
They also did away with the green square next to the posters avatar indicating that they were still online (along with that flashing thing).
The flashing thing (did it look like a little beacon? the memory fades) was broken long before they withdrew it.
They also did away with the green square next to the posters avatar indicating that they were still online (along with that flashing thing).
The flashing thing (did it look like a little beacon? the memory fades) was broken long before they withdrew it.
Yes that's what I was trying to say, thanks man!
What's bizarre about it?? I can't stand the idiots and the trools either. I'm all in favor of some kind of restriction, or merit based posting. Most members here are good. Most drivers are good. the few bad apples on the road have done tremendous damage throught the years, but yet tommorow, most people will get to where the're going. The forums work, but with 9 million members, lets say 10,000 are professional idiots.
but the bad drivers have ublimited access to the public, but limited and groups, tournaments, etc.