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It has been reported multiple times.
It’s a politically sensitive avatar that is offensive to many people. The only action taken to date is to remove my political references to the avatar in this forum. Nice one Chess.com.
It’s a politically sensitive avatar that is offensive to many people. The only action taken to date is to remove my political references to the avatar in this forum. Nice one Chess.com.
If anything their username which supposedly translates from Hebrew/Arabic to mean "your mother's p**sy" should be way more offensive. I don't want to make this a political issue but there's plenty of people who support Israel and doing so should not be a crime, just like how people support Hamas which would definitely be more offensive to most considering they're considered a t*rror*st organization. I don't think politics should have a place on a chess website but since it's somewhat allowed, people who post flags or mantras in support of whoever should be fair game. Their TOS says no political or religious references yet slogans like "free Palestine" or "glory to Ukraine" or "I stand with Israel" are allowed for some reason. Inconsistent rules, for sure, but I think they're more concerned with gore, nudity or any glaring hate more than anything.
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I don’t think Chess.com really wants to get involved in world politics (except for the Russian flag)
I don’t care who supports who I don’t want to read people’s political opinions when I play chess. I would not inflict my opinions on this site on an avatar.
I certainly do not want responses justifying offensiveness.
Chess.com thought it was fine for Russia or perhaps they will kiss Putins arse now that Trump is in bed with him
I certainly do not want responses justifying offensiveness.
Chess.com thought it was fine for Russia or perhaps they will kiss Putins arse now that Trump is in bed with him
I hear you about not wanting to see political opinions in chess. To be honest, chess.com saying they don't want political opinions while also doing the whole no Russia thing is hypocritical and doesn't make much sense, especially since it's not like they're just aligning themselves with fide so I see no excuse. I agree chess without politics is how it should be, but unfortunately politics seems to be soft-allowed as long as it's not over the top. I don't see anything offensive about a political slogan, whether it's correct or incorrect. Should it be here to begin with? IMO, no. Is it offensive? No.
What may not be offensive to you can certainly be offensive to others who have suffered. Let’s not allow any offensive avatars on an international site. End of story.
If the site was run based on an arbitrary standard of offensiveness, then nothing would exist. Anyone can find anything offensive, that's not one of chess.com's avatar rules. Saying "I stand with israel" shouldn't be offensive, in the same way that "free palestine" shouldn't be offensive either. You may think one is wrong but that shouldn't make it offensive. Neither should be on the platform IMO, but if one is allowed, the other should be too. Else chess.com would be playing politics police and only allowing "correct" opinions.
A solution I've resorted to to not have distractions is to have a chrome extension to disable names and avatars and that solves the problem quite well.
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