Where can I find the comments under profiles which used to be there? I can see only those under my profile but when I look at other people's profile there are only their recent games. Did they remove them or something?
The site set the default to Friends Only a while back, so if a player didn't manually change it back, you won't be able to to see them.
Yes, disappointing is right. I dislike the policy change. I think I understand the motivation for the change, and I think they mean well, but I would like them to revert to the previous policy.
I don't even understand what could be the reason. You can always delete those mean comments or as it was before - set it only for friends if your feelings are hurt easily...
I don't even understand what could be the reason. You can always delete those mean comments or as it was before - set it only for friends if your feelings are hurt easily...
https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/profile-notes#comment-45205998
Genius solution to spamming. That's like transplanting your heart so you can't get a heartattack.
Genius solution to spamming. That's like transplanting your heart so you can't get a heartattack.
It was about spam and harassment, but more due to the latter.
Oh, I used to have fun reading those. Sad.
The reason they did was so that they could try to combat the reputation that chess.com has of being full of engine using cheaters. So a consistent cheater usually got some profile comments that pointed politely to the particular user being "suspect". Now you have no idea about the person your playing, there is no rep. The could be stallers etc and yes they could remove the comments themselves, but lets face it, the ones using the engines (and there's a lot !) didn't know or couldn't be bothered. Giving us more info about who we were wasting our time playing and therefore the site more valuable. In effect Chess.com as reduced the value of their offering whilst charging us the same cost. They've "put their prices up". The main advantage to chess.com however is that people stop accusing others so that "cheating" gets ignored and they can pretend everything is fine. There is only so far that their "cheat" algo can go.
Surely there's more technology finding those who cheat than people writing comments on profiles? I can't see how this would help reduce cheating.
Great question Khor, I have wondered the same darn thang over last 2 months, but too embarrassed or busy to ask.
Didja know that our avatars once jammed in 1973 or so? Not a leftist anymore but loved the way those guys could make fun of liberals, from the far radical perspective. Ochs had lost his record contracts and was just a cupl years from the end. John(living at the Chelsea I guess) was out slumming in his limo, when almost hits Phil. Invites him up to motel room for next day, Phil actually sobers up and plays wif him. Rare meeting of minds, few of both of their fans knew it happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKIXd8eZCDk
Thanks F169 I liked that song.
Where can I find the comments under profiles which used to be there? I can see only those under my profile but when I look at other people's profile there are only their recent games. Did they remove them or something?