Can someone tell me WTF is wrong?

I looked through a number of your daily games, and it's not just one thing. I noticed probably half a dozen things that you could be doing better to help your game. Where do I start? :-)

In no particular order...

1) Of course, there are times where you simply hang a piece. Always look for checks, captures, and threats before every move.

2) Counting. There are times where you lose material or fail to gain material because you're not counting the number of attackers and defenders on a piece.

3) Moving the f-pawn or g-pawn too early or for no reason. That often weakens your position, either weakening your pawn structure or creating holes.

4) Being too passive in the opening. Too often moving your d-pawn or e-pawn one square when two squares would be more aggressive. Also, developing your bishop on passive squares too often.

5) Waiting too long to castle. Nuff said about that.

6) Not developing your rooks adequately or soon enough. A number of times, I noticed that after castling, you'd start attacking with knights or bishops before placing your rooks on more central squares. In essence, your were starting your attacks before finishing your development phase of the game.

7) Of course, tactics - but that's general guidance that always applies. :-)

Well, that's the big picture that I saw. I hope some of that helps.

I've been trying to find the rules where it says that's okay.  I'm not questioning you on it, I'm just wanting to read through it to make sure I don't break any of them or find out there's things I could be doing.

Stop spamming.

 I've found this article:

https://support.chess.com/article/317-what-counts-as-cheating-on-chess-com

I mean how long do you spend making your moves in a daily game? If your moving within one or even five minutes and your opponent spend one hour or five per move it’s no mystery why they are winning.

Very good and relevant summary!  Kudos to you, EscherehcsE.

I've been playing daily unrated games a lot lately, and the Analyze feature is really helpful and has improved my performance. It's way easier to play around with continuations and variations on an actual board rather than in your head. I just noticed the Openers icon after reading this thread, and I'm a little surprised that's allowed.

There is nothing wrong. Be patient with yourself. Analyze your games and try not to make the same mistake twice. Also, spend some time solving puzzles. You’ll get there! 

thanks, all of you. much appreciated.

Its the "fair play" page which hidden very well at the bottom of the CDC main page if you scroll down past the ads and gigantic pictures and other junk for 5 min. 

Pasted, its not very long:

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All of your moves must be your own
Do not cheat in any way
Do not get help from any other person, including parents, friends, coaches or another player
Do not use chess engines, software of any kind, bots, plugins or any tools that analyze positions during play
Do not use tablebases or any other resources that show the best move (in both Online and Daily chess)
You may use Opening Explorer or other books without engine evaluations in Daily chess only (not in Online / Live play)
Do not perform any automated analysis or “blunder checking” of your games in progress
Do not allow anyone else to use your account
Do not use anyone else's account
Do not artificially manipulate ratings, matches, or game outcomes
Do not interfere with the gameplay of other members
Suspecting your opponent of using outside help is not an excuse to do the same. If you suspect someone is cheating, report the player to Chess.com.

One suggestion I would make is to analyze all or nearly all of your games after you play them. Either go over them carefully yourself, or have the computer analyze them and then see where you went wrong. In looking at your games, I see that almost none have been analyzed. That's a direct route to improvement.

Your questions responses were very helpful thank you all for the Q&A’s!

Same

     If you are always getting inferior positions out of the opening it is probably because your opponents are using opening books or chess.com's own opening library, while you are not. If you are trying to perfect your opening repetoire, get good books and use them to help you understand the openings you are trying to master. Do not just use the variations that the authors or opening explorer say are best, but choose variations you can understand and lead to types of positions you want to play. In the middle-game and ending, set up your chessboard and use it to analyze--remember that it is ok to move the pieces to look at positions, that is one of the ideas behind the daily games, helping you develop your analytical powers by seeing where your first ideas are mistaken and learning which factors in a position are most important. And take enough time on each move to come up with what you believe to be the best posssible move.

Same used to happen to me, but I've decided to train a particular opening really well, I know it better than my opponents: instead of starting with the best move d4, I go with a second best or third best option and try to play perfect after that. Same with black: most people will play d4, so I don't respond with d5, but with a different move that is 'good enough'. I always analyse my games afterwards and look for the first move that wasn't perfect and then try to remember it. Now I often outplay my opponents in the opening and then lose on tactics/midgame/endgame afterwards. (I don't know how to solve that). It makes me awfully predictable though, so in a tournament that would be a real disadvantage, but it's great for online chess.

That's legal??