How to stop ::redacted for name and shame:: from spamming the tactics trainer?

Alliteration!

http://www.chess.com/home/

Ever been there? It shows a list of all the hundreds... screw it. Just read what has already been posted.

Of course, if you don't like this thread, just ignore it.

Hmmm, so if I engineered a bot to find every thread you post in, then spam all those threads with 1000 Viagra ads to make every contribution of yours unreadable, I'm sure you'd still be telling anyone who didn't like it to bugger off. Hey, that's just how I benefit most from using chess.com! Who are you to tell me how to derive benefit from the site?

The site was created to be a community with social features such as sending notifications to those who are tracking comments. The presumption of having social features is that users will do things that interest other users. That's breaking here - users are solipsistically spamming others' notifications with their own tactics score bragging. Do I think users who do this deserve to be drawn and quartered? No, but the site should note that this behavior is disapproved of, and take measures to discourage it, like allowing upvoting/downvoting of comments on TT.

Last thing - unless TT works differently for diamond members, "he will know that he has already attempted it" is unlikely to be the reason for this kind of spamming. The trainer does not display the comments until after you complete the tactic, so the only value this would have is telling you you've completed the tactic - after you've already wasted your time doing it for the second or third time. And at least 90% of scorespammers do not post when they have failed the problem, only when they pass, so tracking is generally unlikely to hold water as an explanation.

Post Attempted ... 04/17/2015

If u go into ur privacy settings and type in the block user area I think it will work

Yes, chess.com was not created solely for my benefit, and the comments section to tactics trainer puzzles was not created solely for any one person's benefit.  That is why I would not use it to post nothing but my results to the puzzles I attempt which will benefit me solely, and make it more difficult to have discussions about the actual puzzle which could benefit the community at large.  And after experiencing how helpful the comments to puzzles at chesstempo are, it is the same reason that I am annoyed that chess.com lacks the same helpful comments on their puzzles because of people who like to track their individual puzzle activity for their sole benefit by clogging up the public forum which is the comment section.

Nope, unless there is a delay, this doesn't work - I just tried it. Blocking only makes you invisible in Live Chess to the blocked user, and prevents them from messaging you or posting notes on your wall. It doesn't serve AFAIK as a generalized mute button.

      So we have 2 penalties on the field.  Go to chesstempo to solve the puzzle and then come here to comment, or solve the puzzle here, and go to chesstempo to comment.  Decisions, Decisions,  Wheather it is nobler to.....

The people opposed to the behavior in question are simply trying to promote a greater chess learning environment.  I hardly think that is an idiotic or trivial endeavor.  I think that tracking your attempts on puzzles for future reference could be beneficial if done correctly, or fun at the very least.  However, when this behavior hinders the ability of the community to collaborate, other means should be sought by those individuals.

        Ya know, with the puzzles, you have to keep repeating them till you get them right. In the forums, you don't have to keep repeating what everybody said with copy & paste.

when the amount of text becomes cumbersome I try to delete most of it while still making clear to whom and what I am responding.  Every once in a while I have a really hard time telling who you 'non-quoters' are talking to.

You don't have to track the comments on Tactics Trainer. You can turn tracking off.

I don't want to be forced to disable tracking for a thread because of one spammer. I also have no way to disable several years worth of threads I've posted in which this site has set up to automatically track after posting. That wasn't an issue years back before all these morons came and decided to flood the comment section with crap.

You clearly aren't intelligent enough to know what spam is.

Well then I don't know what to tell you. Life is full of little traumas we just have to deal with.

105 minutes ago · Quote · #35

To you, this is a valid comment and not spam. After all, I saw it and felt the need to copy and paste it for all to see.

Like endlessly getting updates you can never turn off?

Hahaha, it's funny how every time there's a thread about this issue, some small angry pantywaist jumps in that they know the One True Definition of spam, and that this isn't it, and that anyone who disagrees must be an obvious moron. Actually, it can be spam and it is spam. Sorry that saying so makes you mad bro.

Exactly. Frankly I don't even really care if they want to do it, I just want the ability to not see it (a la chesstempo). Or be notified about it.

Really want to track your TT attempts? Use MS Excel, not a public forum that sends notifications to others.

Well...I think at this point some of them (not all) legitimately don't realize how many people get spammed by their actions, and some of them are copycats who only do it because the behavior has been normalized by everyone else doing it before. They see the threads and assume that's just how you "should" use TT.

But yeah, there's at least a little narcissism in some of the cases. See this thread that actually sent me over here: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/complaint-about-my-comments-on-tactical-trainer

In that thread, the OP initially looked for validation that what they were doing was OK, before realizing that their behavior was dumb and agreeing to stop.