Is your name like automorphic L-functions somehow, ltude?
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Rob625 wrote:
Interesting. Here's my 2c:
Among the online communities I frequent, some offer "Like" or "+1", others offer up- and down-votes. Chess.com appears to offer neither. I very much prefer the first type.
Quite often I read a few forum posts, and don't feel inclined to say anything myself (there are too many words out there already), but I do like to indicate that I agree with someone; so a FB "Like" or a Motley Fool "Rec" exactly meets my need. I'd like to see something similar on chess.com.
I believe all that, or something along those lines, is coming... soon.
Itude wrote:
Empathy is a subject you mention and I certainly agree it is a very valuable asset for any idividual or community.
The problem is how to engender that, without doing something that puts a lot of people off :
" Please take this empathy test and if you score high enough we will let you into chess.com"
Clearly ridiculous but I know from personal experience that it can be learned, my natural instinct I am afraid to say is basically " you hit me and I will hit you harder" not helpful in the long run for me or anyone else, but boy it is tempting sometimes.
I can only say that what helped me most was by learning alternatives to hitting back harder, practising them ( not easy) and gradually learning that in most cases I actually felt better for using those alternatives.
I am not quite sure what to suggest, but although myself, and I guess, the vast majority on here would agree with you in theory, in practice it ain't always that easy, especially if you are literally not aware of the many possible ways to develop it instead of simply reacting.
A section somewhere on empathy for those who care to read it ? I am not really sure I can offer anything better so any suggestions as to how one might foster empathy would be very helpful, and I would find it interesting .
Nicetude
1. It is easy to lie on an empathy test 2. chess.com has a premium member section for forums which has a very small amount of trolls and probably will get more people.
Ajttja
Mitch_Schwartzen wrote:
bigpoison wrote:
My feelings are very hurt. Why don't the kiddies empathise with me?
Attaja is 38 years old
Oh yeah? I've got a bridge between the upper and lower penninsulas of Michigan for sale. Cheap!
Mitch_Schwartzen wrote:
bigpoison wrote:
My feelings are very hurt. Why don't the kiddies empathise with me?
Attaja is 38 years old
+1 I was looking through all this hard debate and then I saw this, turning a phrase into a nice Joke and it didn't harm the qualitly of the thread.
ajttja wrote:
2. chess.com has a premium member section for forums which has a very small amount of trolls and probably will get more people.
2. chess.com has a premium member section for forums which has a very small amount of trolls and probably will get more people.
Ajttja
I just checked: There have been five posts in that category in the past four days. Four of them were in the same thread (with three posts from the OP), and one was a guy bumping his own thread from over a week ago (to which no-one but him has yet responded).
bigpoison wrote:
Mitch_Schwartzen wrote:
bigpoison wrote:
My feelings are very hurt. Why don't the kiddies empathise with me?
Attaja is 38 years old
Oh yeah? I've got a bridge between the upper and lower penninsulas of Michigan for sale. Cheap!
another random spam post that discusts me and destroys the thread.
P.S. I hope that Erik doesn't mind too much that his forum has turned into a battlefield because of bigpoison. It would be a shame if he had to lock the thread
TheGrobe wrote:
ajttja wrote:
2. chess.com has a premium member section for forums which has a very small amount of trolls and probably will get more people.
2. chess.com has a premium member section for forums which has a very small amount of trolls and probably will get more people.
Ajttja
I just checked: There have been five posts in that category in the past four days. Four of them were in the same thread (with three posts from the OP), and one was a guy bumping his own thread from over a week ago (to which no-one but him has yet responded).
That is my point. The Premium member forum hardly gets any attention so who would try to post in another forum that you have to take a test to get into and has more trolls? That is why the new forum topic would recive little or no attention.
ajttja wrote:
bigpoison wrote:
Nope. Worse.
Thank you! A perfect example of a dumb spammer/troll that comes to forums to just lower the qualitly of writing. A joke would be welcome or something to lower the tone of the philosophical seriousnes but not just some non deep dumb 2 word attack that ruins a nice forum. Also, bigpoison brings up his faliure. I made a forum once "player of the month" and bigpoison immediatly tried to destroy it but I out trolled him and he ended up being the Joke of the month instead of having his way by destroying another harmless forum. The cat eating the mouse.
Um, I'm sorry, can you read my comment about two posts down.
And besides, are you claiming you are not a dumb spammer troll or something? Because it seems like you encourage harassing people. In what ways have you contributed to this community?
ajttja wrote:
TheGrobe wrote:
ajttja wrote:
2. chess.com has a premium member section for forums which has a very small amount of trolls and probably will get more people.
2. chess.com has a premium member section for forums which has a very small amount of trolls and probably will get more people.
Ajttja
I just checked: There have been five posts in that category in the past four days. Four of them were in the same thread (with three posts from the OP), and one was a guy bumping his own thread from over a week ago (to which no-one but him has yet responded).
That is my point. The Premium member forum hardly gets any attention so who would try to post in another forum that you have to take a test to get into and has more trolls? That is why the new forum topic would recive little or no attention.
Looked like you were saying it was a troll free haven poised for an influx of users.
chessdex wrote:
And besides, are you claiming you are not a dumb spammer troll or something? Because it seems like you encourage harassing people. In what ways have you contributed to this community?
There's that conciliatory tone Erik was asking us all for.
Also, a +1 is sufficient.
TheGrobe wrote:
ajttja wrote:
TheGrobe wrote:
ajttja wrote:
2. chess.com has a premium member section for forums which has a very small amount of trolls and probably will get more people.
2. chess.com has a premium member section for forums which has a very small amount of trolls and probably will get more people.
Ajttja
I just checked: There have been five posts in that category in the past four days. Four of them were in the same thread (with three posts from the OP), and one was a guy bumping his own thread from over a week ago (to which no-one but him has yet responded).
That is my point. The Premium member forum hardly gets any attention so who would try to post in another forum that you have to take a test to get into and has more trolls? That is why the new forum topic would recive little or no attention.
Looked like you were saying it was a troll free haven poised for an influx of users.
sorry, I meant that the Premium member catagorie will have more members than the new catagorie that is being proposed
I think that if chess.com was interested in empty +1 comments they'd have implemented a "like" feature. Why not add your own thoughts? Tell people why you liked something.
C'mon TheGrobe! You're, singlehandedly, ruining this thread with your reading comprehension and stuff.
It would be a shame if this thread were moved to "off-topic" just because of your pragmatism.
TheGrobe wrote:
chessdex wrote:
And besides, are you claiming you are not a dumb spammer troll or something? Because it seems like you encourage harassing people. In what ways have you contributed to this community?
There's that conciliatory tone Erik was asking us all for.
Look, I only responded after he called me a dumb spammer troll who harms chess.com. What do you want me to do, agree with him?
TheGrobe wrote:
I think that if chess.com was interested in empty +1 comments they'd have implemented a "like" feature. Why not add your own thoughts? Tell people why you liked something.
that is what i was telling chessdex
chessdex wrote:
Look, I only responded after he called me a dumb spammer troll who harms chess.com. What do you want me to do, agree with him?
I think you read far too much into what was a two word post.
chessdex wrote:
TheGrobe wrote:
chessdex wrote:
And besides, are you claiming you are not a dumb spammer troll or something? Because it seems like you encourage harassing people. In what ways have you contributed to this community?
There's that conciliatory tone Erik was asking us all for.
Look, I only responded after he called me a dumb spammer troll who harms chess.com. What do you want me to do, agree with him?
hey, when did i call you that? I was calling bigpoison that not you? (unless you are bigpoisons other acount)
Nope. Worse.
Thank you! A perfect example of a dumb spammer/troll that comes to forums to just lower the qualitly of writing. A joke would be welcome or something to lower the tone of the philosophical seriousnes but not just some non deep dumb 2 word attack that ruins a nice forum. Also, bigpoison brings up his faliure. I made a forum once "player of the month" and bigpoison immediatly tried to destroy it but I out trolled him and he ended up being the Joke of the month instead of having his way by destroying another harmless forum. The cat eating the mouse.
the opposite. the post bp was responding to, deserved this exact response.
wrong, First you are defending him because you are also a spammer. two, chessdex's post was a posotive one that would have been nice if he had explained what he meant and what he was +1ing to so the poster would have gotten a smile and known that what he posted was worth something to someone.