Incredibly Low Quality Comments

Good chess (whatever that means) is pretty niche. That is, people looking to seriously rise above patzerhood, and actually are doing something about it, are few and far between.

If you're looking for any sort of meaningful chess discussion, I recommend the Game Analysis, Endgame Study and (yeek) Chess Openings subfora. At least some threads there have little bits of useful information. Helpfully spread out amidst waves of not quite productive comments and OPs.

By the way, we used to do a lot of fun stuff when someone would post a dumb thread, but a few people whined about it to staff and now we aren't allowed to do that any more. As a result the forums are pretty boring and full of dumb stuff.

At home I average low 12 seconds - http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2012MCKE01

Victor-Servranckx wrote:
"Well, well, well. I'm afraid you entered a democracy and your opinion on the quality of the comments made by other chess.com partcipants shows that you have little multicultural skills. When you are new in a company, country, community, group or family, it pays off to take your time and discover the positive in your new companions. Perhaps later they will have more respect for you when you make comments and your comment are likely to be more balanced. "

I understand that it requires time to acquire a well developed subjective opinion on chess participants' comments, but there are comments that are objectively meaningless, such as, "FIRST PAGE" - which has no relevance to anything. I would never try to introduce a new cultural paradigm to an established community like the chess community unless I was very familiar with it and experienced, but I do not apologise for pointing out the frustration caused by spam comments.

aggressivesociopath wrote:

"I agree that a lot of what gets posted here should be delated as spam. But so what? Try getting to know your fellow forum posters. You will soon find out which of them are morons, which speak nonsense nonstop, and which are worth reading. I am not entirely sure I let stupid, meaningless or frivolous comments pass my way without mention, but not doing so is unrewarding and clutters up the forums just as much as posting nonsense in the first place."

I agree that getting to know forum members will help me to identify useful posts, but you must understand my frustration when I have to sift through post after post in order to find something of worth.

Also, I'm not against funny posts. I don't want the forum to be boring and filled with people who have nothing to say other than about strict chess study.
In reference to speedsolving, there a quite a few funny or dumb threads that everyone loves, including me, but I get annoyed when insightful material is conflated with those spam comments.

on a more serious note: chess is the game of nerds; so to be more cool is exactly what is needed and the only way to change the image of chess (a good first step would be, if top 10 players would be dressed better, but unfortunately they are dressed lousy..)

there's the aggressive sociopath too :) 

Joined: July 26th.

Returning banned member by any chance?

COOL

Believable story, I'm sure there are detailed Wikipedia articles on the subject. I'm not really attempting to change the subject, it doesn't interest me.

I agree with the OP about the pointless comments, but unless I am given the banhammer to take to them, it doesn't seem like a constructive observation without a solution.

Three things:

1. There already was a big Internet chess community before chess.com. Chess.com has attracted a lot of those who weren't on other chess sites before yet, so the crowd here is relatively less serious about chess.
2. Chess.com is really big. All huge online communities are dominated by the lowest common denominator (compare the signal/noise ratio of the default subreddits on reddit.com with small niche subreddits).
3. Chess.com's forums are so active and so stupidly designed that it's impossible to have serious discussion on here. I don't think that was their aim.

Gentleman,

The only threads that get deleted around here are the chessgames.com sucks threads. I remember a "I am going to murder" everyone here thread as well, I treated it as a poetry writing thread, but it disappeared. None of us can clean up the threads, we don't own the forum. It is not that hard to ignore one word posts; I have done it myself with puzzles that Yeres30 posted. I my defense the puzzle was nice.

I admit, I'm less around, yes. Sorry.

Congratulations on losing weight (though I'm sure it was unnecessary)

The trolls is a misnomer, a term that is applied in a highly subjective and careless way. But some people, who could fit the more traditional definition of trolls, take to whingeing to the mods any time they get proven wrong or ignored, and the mods for whatever reason feel they have to do something about it.

Thank you Ivan. I must agree with you again, I'm afraid.  Have to find a new line...

And victor: thanks. We might as well laugh while we are around. 

i totally agree those low 2200 rated trolls that say Fischer didnt read any books. really we shouldnt allow anyone to post who is below 2500

We can rebuild them... we have the technology.

As long as we don't go nuts it should be OK.

Pounds?

nailed