Low quality comments and puur spealings aire awuiseme.
Incredibly Low Quality Comments

chess an intellectual game? yes, it is.. on the other side it has something ridiculous if two adult men sit on a chair and move small wooden pieces around for several hours. it is a laugh as long as you are not caught by the virus... some nice people play chess but it is also a proxy war for the usual suspects: loners, autists, sociopaths..

Ay, most of me ancestors also came from the Emerald Isle. County Cork and elsewhere. Me Irish heart was a wee bit too fond of the ale, so I had to quit. It was bad for me chess
Please don't take this the wrong way, but, you quit drinking to reach a 1279 level in chess?
You need a black and tan!
I haven't played in quite awhile; just getting my rating built back up. But I will never be a GM, or an IM, or a M, or city champ, or any other champ. I
I was kidding about stopping drinking for my chess rating. I stopped because I can't drink moderately and it was ruining my life.
Enjoy your Black and Tan and whatever other flavors...
I would like to quit but who would support our local taxis?
I hear you; I would love to go back to drinking, but I never took cabs; always insisted I could drive w/no problem. Somehow rational thinking disappeared after the first 7 or 8 beers;
I'm lucky to be alive, or lucky I'm not a quadriplegic, or didn't kill someone. I even wrote totally drunk on a motorcycle.
Yes it's better to leave the driving to people who can see straight!

@ Belgian Victor, post nr 99, yes !
High quality texts in these forums should be that way ( and I myself try to do that...).
Your listing is like the commercial sales formula, " AIDA " , Attention, Interest, Desire and Action !
Your Surprise = Attention, Smiling.
Your Teaching = giving Information and stimulating Interest.
Your Arousing = Desire, and hopefully Action.
Concerning the last item : it is always nice to read any reaction to what you wrote, that's the benefit of any forum...

A high quality comment should :
Surprise or
Make you laugh or
Learn you something or
Stimulate your interest or
Arouse you or
Make you change your personality or
....
I like high quality pictures that arouse me, especially pictures of Ann Hathaway or Selena Gomez

I seen a Selma Hyak movie the other day, wow she makes me drool, .
What number is this?
That was 108, this is 109.
Selma is a 10

I'd +1 the OP, and flag some comments, but chess.com hasn't yet added those now standard & ubiquitus forum/comment moderation tools.
2 to go.
don't forget to count yourself as well.