The paying vs. free community (and trolling)

To be honest though, i appreciate the input here in the forum from non-paying members, as everyone should have the right to a voice in the community. I just feel that their voices should be restricted from game-observing chat, in order to benefit everyone. And that is reasonable at worst.

I only clicked this thread for the part between parentheses

It's the only good part.

Paying for a membership is trash talk insurance?  Great idea.

They're pretty good for your feng shui too (or so I've heard).

Unfortunately, being a freeloader, I have to keep half of my couch sticking out in the foyer.

I never had the problem of people chatting in my game on the internet, I have had the problem of people talking in my chess club, telling me and my opponent what move to make, if anyone has any suggestions as to how to get rid of kibitzers like that, please let me know. We can't just throw these people out because the club is in the public library.  

I think you missed the point. The point is that non-paying members do pay via providing the site with ad revenue. They are not freeloaders.

Had nothing to do with equating chat with ad watching.

Well CrookedKight you insisted that we freeloaders are non-contributors( Etc ) but when we explain the way that we generate revenue then we are called stupid. You are rather a very rude sort of of a character aren't you ? What other insults do you have stored up for us ? 

Jeez cabby, never ask that around here...

@Ixusr

To answer your question... yes. Paying for a membership is basically anti-trash-talk insurance, in that you can be held accountable for what you say here, as well as whether you cheat here or not. If a person chooses to cheat or make blatantly racist comments they run the risk of losing the investment they made in paying for a membership. That is the basic idea that I am proposing here.

Well he called us leeches earlier so that is another one that he can't use as a new insult. Mind you maybe he just ran out of his pills or something ? 

But they also might reason that it makes them less vulnerable to such charges, and thus be inclined to act less scrupulously, not more.

crooked_knight wants to feel part of a privileged upper class.  So he can't stand having to share a chat with those stinky commoners!  It has nothing to do with the occasional rude kibitzer, or some selfless mission to increase the revenue streams of chess.com.  Those are just the excuses he'll admit to.

Why not just request an Auto filter system and Moderators to censor people being abusive? rather than block free users all together.

because the real issue bothering him is all free users, not just the abusive users

@Berder... for a 3rd time

I am not a priviledged or elite person. I grew up in a lower middle class home with 3 brothers. To boot, I barely make 20k a year working as a security guard. However, I take chess seriously, and would like it to be a more productive learning experience. In general, the people who inhibit the possibilty of learning from a master level game are non-paying members. Who are you to deny what my experience here has been, or to insult a person for wanting to get what they paid for?

Alright, maybe you aren't privileged in real life but that doesn't change your motivation in making this post.  "Wanting to get what you paid for" is not the same as wanting to ruin the experience of everyone else (i.e. free members, which is most people).

I frequently watch live master games and I have never noticed a big problem with abusive users.  If someone acts rude, I block them.  End of story.  More often, the problem is a lack of people to discuss the game with; it's no fun if you're the only one commenting.

im fairly sure there is a limit to the number of people you can block... which makes your method for dealing with this issue harder. 
Also, even if there was no limit, it is inconvenient to have to block a person every time that happens. Be realistic, if you were paying for cable tv, and every time a new and offensive reality show was featured on a network, you would be angry that you had to block that network just to view the things you enjoy from that venue. The amount of time relevant to the time consumption for alleviating the issue is alarming and annoying.

I have noticed, since this thread has begun, that non-paying members are hesitant to speak at all while observing games. I assume the word has been spread, and these trolls are afraid of losing their priviledge until this blows over.

Yes, you are godlike in your magnificence and influence!  All hail the Crooked One...