Why Aren't Titled Players More Active In The Forums?

In general titled players started young... the higher the rating, the younger they started... Carlsen said he started late because he was already 8 so he hard to work hard to catch up...

maybe because they are mature adults unlike patzers and me?

Your assumption of 2 types of titled players is what I meant. You also seem to be young based on your username. Oh and you are correct. I am a "socially awkward nerd."

You're participating in the forums anyway with much wit and flair, I'll add! 👑

I'm confused, @kracker12345, so you are disagreeing about the 2 types of titled players, but what's the objection in particular?

I'm not an NM so it doesn't matter how old I am.

I would guess that either kracker is a kid who doesn't really study, or a middle aged NM who does study.

It was a generalisation by Unicorn, though I don't think they were actually saying there are strictly only 2 types of titled players, but we can dissect it.

1. Most NMs getting the title as teens because they started as kids... True, but is more true now than it used to be. So quite a few NMs do exist who got the title as adults.
2. Most NMs have given up on studying/improvement... Not sure whether this is the case. Perhaps most NMs who are also adults have accepted the common wisdom that if you're going to become an IM or GM, it probably needed to happen before you turned 30. I'm not sure what % of NMs still living today have given up chess, but I do imagine that the vast majority of those who continue with it long term are the ones who got their NM title as kids or teens, since they have more potential. Or, at least, older people are told that we don't have much potential.
3. This would support the second conclusion that most NMs who are studying are kids, but I'd extend that to kids, teens and early 20s.

Unicorn's point was that the stereotype of titled players being nerdy, bookish, unsocial and not the witty type, and therefore not active in forums, doesn't make sense because those who are still bookish (studying) are statistically very likely to be kids (full of beans and very prosocial), and those who aren't kids are mostly not bookish anymore, so even if they're not active in the forums that's not because they're busy studying.

i feel like free diamond for titled players may motivate players to become a titled player.

I get unicorn's point (well, unicorns have the best points don't they) but I didn't understand why kracker wanted to object to it; maybe im missing something but i did not quite see what was objectionable about the categories even if they did not fit well.

yes

Yeah not really sure. I do gather that they're young, almost certainly a teenager, and they do see themselves as a nerd with not much of a social life, rather than as a hyperactive child prodigy type? But the fact that they're chatting in the forums does still support that despite being bookish they're not unsocial, and personally I don't think that they're low in wit either, so they do go against Peggy's stereotype.

Storm in a teacup, probably

Looks like we all agree that rainbow unicorns are the best kind of corns.

Hmmmmm nerdy with not much social life doesn't seem to conflict with chatting a lot in the forums....idk i mean I like stuff like CS theory and disappearing from humans for extended periods of time

The internet 2.0, once again blurring the boundaries between social interaction and social isolation

Oh right, i guess there are humans on here as well as animals and desserts.

And trolls!

hiiiii yeah did you not consider your kind a part of the animal kingdom?

That's only in Skyrim

And you're occupying too much space

That puts them in Monsanto land