Joined 23 days ago
Why are you copying me? Both our accounts created on the same day?
First rule of fight club ...
I'd be careful if I were you, the person who made these accounts is clearly disturbed...
... or maybe you shouldn't bring me every little piece of trash you happen to pick up.
(something like that)
And I used to be such a nice guy
Nothing goofy that happens around here should surprise us ( remember V3 lol ).
I just finished an auto mute during a friendly private chat ,the word was very tame to say the least would not even let me use the word so what was the point in the auto mute penality ,reckon the friend wondered why I stopped talking to him mid-conversation all seems a bit daft to me ,far to many oversensitive complainers on here really not sure how they get on with real life what do they do walk around with headphones on in case they get offended ,get a life springs to mind .
Good grief!
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was a well-known author of speculative sci-fi. In the chat section of a game with a former student of mine, I made a reference to him and got some automatic warning. Is there some way to revoke this misguided auto-penalty?
Clearly, the proper way to prevent a repeat of this problem is to posthumously change the author's name to Philip K. Duck...
Good grief!
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was a well-known author of speculative sci-fi. In the chat section of a game with a former student of mine, I made a reference to him and got some automatic warning. Is there some way to revoke this misguided auto-penalty?
Clearly, the proper way to prevent a repeat of this problem is to posthumously change the author's name to Philip K. Duck...
Similar to Pac Man
If stories are to be believed, it was originally "Puck Man" but they thought in that case vandalizing the P would be too tempting.
Good grief!
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was a well-known author of speculative sci-fi. In the chat section of a game with a former student of mine, I made a reference to him and got some automatic warning. Is there some way to revoke this misguided auto-penalty?
Clearly, the proper way to prevent a repeat of this problem is to posthumously change the author's name to Philip K. Duck...
Quackery, I tell you!
A lot of these words that are so "offensive" and people are muted for them, aren't abusive. When you can be muted for mentioning a lady dog or an author's name, that is not correct. They aren't offensive words, either deliberately or mistakenly; and so much as I totally hate to say it, Mr C may be right. Afer all, it's just a matter of policy and in this case, it seems mistaken. Your side can rethink and then, amazingly, we will find that you have been right all along!
Just because a word had innocent uses doesn't mean it isn't often used in abusive ways. Being a chess site, your example word is very unlikely to be used in a less offensive way for most members anyway.
Nobody cares what your idiotic statistical analysis says. It has innocent usage, like the name of the book about a whale!
If your programmers aren't able to programmatically make it understand context, you need to remove auto-punishment for usage of the word, and let users file complaints, and manually research the context to differentiate "Shut up Bleep Head" from "Bleep Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve".
Any punishment to an innocent user is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE! Using such lame excuses as this just goes to show how little you money-hogging admins care about customer service!
...and change Melville's book title to "Moby Duck". It's the only solution...
I've just been muted for a few hours due to the use of a perfectly innocent ENGLISH word that means "blunder". It didn't occur to me that there was a problem.
It occurs to me that Chess.com is abusive and possibly racist. Also, the promise that such problems will be sorted after an email to help and support seems to be a lie.
Since we can now all be expected to be muted unexpectedly, we need to optimize the process of being missed by the community. Any ideas, optimissed?
I've just been muted for a few hours due to the use of a perfectly innocent ENGLISH word that means "blunder". It didn't occur to me that there was a problem.
It occurs to me that Chess.com is abusive and possibly racist. Also, the promise that such problems will be sorted after an email to help and support seems to be a lie.
Remember this is a worldwide site. Something common and innocent in Britain may have a vulgar slang meaning in the USA or Australia or India. Chess.com computers seem to have a list of words that automatically trigger muting.
sometimes they do but you just have to listen. this is what you're referring to, no?
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/chess-com-supports-racism
I've just been muted for a few hours due to the use of a perfectly innocent ENGLISH word that means "blunder". It didn't occur to me that there was a problem.
It occurs to me that Chess.com is abusive and possibly racist. Also, the promise that such problems will be sorted after an email to help and support seems to be a lie.
Ooh, now you've aroused my curiosity; You must tell us the word. The autobots used to not understand Pig Latin, so maybe you could do that. (Hopefully the autobots haven't gotten smarter...)
we might need to hold a séance with george carlin. also please don't write 'curiosity' without italics - it offends me.
we might need to hold a séance with george carlin. also please don't write 'curiosity' without italics - it offends me.
And just think how it affects all the cats who post here.
They're caught between Scylla and Charybdis. They get angry responses from you and others here, and angry complaints from parents if they let too much "bad language" through. There aren't enough monitors to keep watch over every post so putting auto-mutes into the computer is the easy way out. Not saying it's a great system, but offended parents telling their kids they can't use chess.com would cost $$.
Perhaps it's all held together by pretence of the safe home environment.
Kids probably swear online more than adults since it's perceived to be mature (as in for mature audience only). However they don't complain to their parents when they get muted for it since they don't want them to know. So no complaints from kids or parents on the filter. Kids, however, do complain to their parents when they get offended (or sworn at in retaliation) , since it reassures the parents that they're responsible and caring and providing a safe environment which was now being violated by this site.
Just a guess.
Joined 23 days ago
Why are you copying me? Both our accounts created on the same day?
First rule of fight club ...
I'd be careful if I were you, the person who made these accounts is clearly disturbed...
... or maybe you shouldn't bring me every little piece of trash you happen to pick up.
(something like that)