GET PAID FOR PLAYING CHESS
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i like that picture, makes sense as for me xD
Sep 23, 2016
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#65
Instead of trying to convince chess.com to pay us to click on ads, play mediocre chess, and contribute trivial comments to the forum (which we already do for $0), we could earn actual money starting immediately by signing up with Amazon's Mechanical Turk job site. There we would have the potential to earn sub-minimum wage chipping away at an endless list of simple mindless web-based tasks at 4¢ each!
http://www.salon.com/2006/07/24/turks_3/
Sep 23, 2016
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#66
Besides, the majority of members (non-premium) are getting paid. Chess.com is paying them by letting them use the site for free. It costs the site $ to pay for the servers, electricity, programmers, writers, etc. Please don't take this for granted. We should be grateful they allow free membership.
I agree with Marcus. How about instead of money a paid membership.
Get a job lazyass.
You should be hit in the head if you really think that someone will pay you money because you played X amount of games or clicked an adv.
Three possibilities come to mind: 1) It would be nice and probably indirectly profitable for the site to give cash rewards based on participation, as you suggest. However, at best I think you're talking about a pittance. If you're hoping for more than that, it seems very unlikely to me. 2) I do think class chess tournaments could be held for cash prizes. Yes, I'm aware of computers and cheating but if a player's rating went up much faster than it went down, with a "floor", then eventually all the computer cheaters would be clustered at the top playing amongst themselves. And I suspect there are ways to determine who is using a computer. If so, then a new ratings formula that moved a person up much more quickly plus some investigative work to find cheater bots and we could keep the cheaters out and enjoy online chess tournaments with cash prizes. 3) League play with classes where people are paid to play on teams. The site might be willing to pay more for this than for random participation. League winners might also win cash prizes at the end of the playing schedule. Like World Series winners in baseball.
You shouldn't Bill, as said a candidate for the presidency of the U.S. recently: Money is good.