On blocking players and making the most of your chess.com experience

I will block people who have three distinct vowels in their username because that is against the spirit of chess as intended by the space aliens that taught the game to the first chess player, Theodore Roosevelt. 

I mean, if we are going to go goofy arbitrary lets do this. 

How does blocking yourself even work?

People disagreeing with you is not bullying.

Your record is mediocre, and there's no weight of authority behind the arguments you make. I don't say that to be rude. My record is mediocre. But I'm not holding myself out as an arbiter of what constitutes "good chess" or dismissing games by world champions as somehow, nebulously "wrong".

You acknowledge that your assessment of what constitutes "bully chess" is nothing but your own opinion. You've also demonstrated that you have your own idiosyncratic idea of sportsmanship (which, given that sportsmanship is a consensus, you're pretty much *always* going to be wrong about if you come up with your own).

What these threads look like to the rest of us, therefore, is someone throwing a tantrum because people aren't playing the game the way he wants. Not very edifying, but on its own, whatever. Indeed if you didn't make a point of bragging about it, nobody would care. What's more of an issue is that you're and actively encouraging others to do the same, something which promotes intolerance in the community and which, if other people will follow your advice, will hinder their development as players.

Surely you knew what was going to happen when you posted this thread, after the last one? Posting this thread is basically trolling to start with.

I made this thread with the only goal to encourage beginners to liberally use the block feature (which many, incidentally, already use quite a bit). That I gave examples as to what constitutes behavior worthy of a block in my world is not at the core of the goal of this thread.|>>

On the whole, that does seem to be a very negative and destructive goal. It seems you're trying to spoil their chances of improving.

It may seem that way to you (and possibly many others). Let me offer a counterargument. Which is the most hated bot by beginners? You've guessed correctly... it's Nelson. Nelson exemplifies annoying chess and there's a growing number of thread s evoted to how to beat it. The threads are mostly packed with good general advice, don't get me wrong, but that some advice can be taken and offered as the backbone to more serious chess that you can actually learn from regardless of the result, instead of learning for the result (that is to say, to beat the annoying bot).

I contend it's far better for many beginners to focus on the best way to play chess and not on taking time and effort to prepare against ridiculous "sidelines" just designed to annoy them, make them feel unworthy and generally demotivate them. But that's just MY opinion.

I never claimed to have anything but my opinion on my side. The fact that I consider some games from the Romantics very much akin to bully chess is nothing but triffe to this thread.

I made this thread with the only goal to encourage beginners to liberally use the block feature (which many, incidentally, already use quite a bit). That I gave examples as to what constitutes behavior worthy of a block in my world is not at the core of the goal of this thread.