How Can The Forums Be Made Even Better?

ok - let's put this to a survey!

click here to take the Chess.com Forum survey >>

who knows - maybe this will give chess.com the info they need to change things...

Done

A proper survey! great link artfizz.

Just standing on the shoulders of giants.

copycat thread ?

You have such a corporate-minded approach to things. They are already this good and you want to make them better?!! Profit, profit, profit...never contentment.

Which cat is being copied: the Tally Forum Annoyances one - which generated a list of gripes but didn't manage to count distributions - or Erik's completely different survey about overrated Glicko ratings?

How many forums does it take to change a light bulb?

It doesn't take any.

The light bulb has to want to change.

Hey! that's a new smiley that isn't available - as griped about in the Chess.com Forum survey >> (where incidentally, None of the Above is causing an unprecedented level of anguish). 

But notice the positive spin*: the previous foray was garnering Annoyances; this time round it's harvesting ways of making things better (allegedly).

*A neutron walks into a bar. "I'd like a beer" he says.

     The bartender promptly serves up a beer.

     "How much will that be?" asks the neutron.

     "For you?" replies the bartender, "no charge" 

ALL of the above is never an option?

It's available at yahoo along with many others   I use them all the time to convey, guess what? EMOTIONS   so that people will know when I'm (trying to be) funny   cuz my sense of humor tends to be somewhat dry

we could sure use them here - especially in vote chess game forums

the nuetron said to the electron - "you're exciting"

the electron said to the nuetron "you're a little quarky"

the bartender said, "Why don't you guys go take a quantum leap"

Almost all of the last six comments were hilarious! And I'm going to steal that bartender joke(s)!

What did Schrödinger give his cat to play with? String theory.

Why was the barfly named Higgs-Boson? Cause when his wife calls, not even the most sophisticated equipment can detect him.

Finally, I'm going to adress the actual topic of this forum. I looked at the questionaire and mostly checked [none of the above] because most of those things don't really matter to me. I wish c.c had the same amount (or even almost the same amount) of interest in the chess aspects of the site such as the playing board and the move numbers being screwed up in vote chess and allowing ratings for un-timed tactics trainer excercises. There should be more tools for editing chess articles in forums such as the old interactive diagrams that they took away that were availble in many sizes. Now we have the one size fits all and takes up too much space version. Was that mentioned in the survey? If it was I didn't see it.  edit: - Text should wrap around pictures too. There's probably more if I took a minute to think about it but if those things mattered they would have been on the survey.

ohhh, I'm missed the fun:

Q: What is the difference between a Quantum Theorist and a Beauty
     Therapist?
A:  The Quantum Theorist uses Planck's Constant as a foundation,
      whereas the Beauty Therapist uses Max Factor.

Q: What did the thermometer say to the graduated cylinder?
A: "You may have graduated but I've got many degrees"

Q.  What did one electron say to the other electron?
A.  Don't get excited.  You'll only get into a state!