muted for typing an author's name

Too many 'o's. His name sounds rude. Somebody mute this dude.

what. a. tool.

who the hell are you to pass judgement like this?

you don't know sh*t. ron has been here for years. the other person you have been badgering is one that has quit the site at times. mostly because of dealings with douches like you. 

but, here you are, telling the world that ron and idilis are not worthy.

if i might be so bold, why don't you just f off. you pretend you know things when you don't. both of the members you pretend are trolls are two of the best contributors. 

allow that to sink in. you are harassing two of the most respected members here. all to glorify your ego as if you know more than everyone else. please stop this and try to repair your reputation.

on the filter, it is plain laziness from cc. use a bot instead of paying someone to monitor. on that, what we see from the mods is gross. they all cite tos and make strawmen rebuttals that make no sense. we see it in this topic.

if someone were to reference nixon as 'tricky d*ck", that might be censored here, even though almost every adult is familiar with that term for a former president.

It's ironic when people who declare the mods "soft" don't realise that if Chess.com weren't such a tolerant place, they'd be long gone.

Ron's prone to the odd brain explosion, but he owns his mistakes and sincerely apologizes for them to all affected. That's much better than a liar who is intent on spinning everything about the site in as negative a fashion as he can find, and far less "suspicious". I can only imagine that they're insecure about lichess' "superiority" and feel compelled to try and pull Chess.com down to make those other folks look better. Hilariously, it's only making them look worse.

They don't learn it from you, you continue to say that evidence that disproves you actually proves your point.

The filter of bad words is overall good thing, but I don't think that it should have the ability of muting people or at least not for so long time. I did once talk here with somebody in an another laguage than english and I was muted for bad word useage at the moment when I didn't even know what exactly that filter recognized as a bad word in my message...  I understand that cases like that are rare, but isn't the fact that you can't write those words already enough?

My 1913Websters (it's an app) has it oriented precisely the opposite way:

• orient (v.t.) - 1. To define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; ....
• orientate (v.t.) - 1. To place or turn toward the east; ....
• orientate (v.i.) - 1. To move or turn toward the east; ...

I suppose that means there's a distinction to be made between an orienteer and an orientater.

As I've said here before: people come and people go.

For a website, a lot of them are going to be programmers, both front and back end, but there are a lot of other staff as well, including project managers, support, community related staff, and upper level managers that set the direction. I'm not sure all of the 400+ staff show on the staff list.

Back end is what the front end connects to.

ur boasting just because you're mod

interesting take on tolerance. this topic, like some others (wink, wink) have been started to show the fails in hope that someone reads them and uses their position to make the site better. we went over this once before and you locked a topic about site fails and improvements. i seriously doubt your claim that some are only posting these things to try to bring this place 'down' because they like lichess. 

remember andy clifton (aka ghost of pushwood)? he was muted here so many times he finally left and went to lichess. he has had zero issues there, so, your interpretation on what is tolerated is incorrect, in my opinion.

as far as people being "long gone", i know you know how easy it is to make a new account here. itude has had about 50 accounts. banning one doesn't mean they are long gone.

Didn't see that coming

"I'm on a mission from God"

Oh look, another thread becomes the CooloutAC show!

     You know you can see his name and picture at the top of his posts. You can just scroll past those posts--you won't be missing anything.

    I find him annoying enough that I often just pop his balloon to see what he'll do. It's sort of like using a laser pointer to get your cat to run around in a frenzy. It's entertaining for a bit and the cat gets some activity.

     Yeah, but he'll bloviate left and right whether anyone is responding to him or not. He's been doing that since the day he became a member. At first I tried to just point out where he was wrong or contradicted himself or lied about what others said, but now I sometimes feel that some of the nastiest things he says deserve a refutation.

But first we all need to apologize to Richard. And a magnificent sea bird

Please do not blame the bunny for bumping. @justbefair sent me here.