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Not allowed to ask questions on chess.com forum?
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To [Moderator SB name removed]
I asked an innocent inoffensive chess question the other day, and got this answer from a guy named [Mod SB name removed]
“There’s databases of rook endings. There’s books on rook endings. There’s diagrams & info on them on the vast internet! Come on!
My children do this all the time, too. They don’t want to do their homework, instead they just want someone to give them skills by the magical osmosis of words. I say, “everything you want to know can be found on the internet and in books. Get with the program. This is the 21st Century.” :
This post is a letter to all people who have ever responded, in real life or online, with this line to someone who asked them a question. You know who you are (sociopaths.)
Every now and then I run into someone who is actually rude and poorly raised enough to answer questions posed to them with, “Why don’t you look it up online? Google it. Or, What do I look like, your personal encyclopedia?” And the implication is that anyone these days who asks a direct question to another person is lazy, and “not doing their own research,” as [Mod SB name removed] said to me above. Most people are socially trained enough to know that this sort of passive aggressive, hostile answer is a sign of a sociopath. But I am here to ask you all, is this the kind of world you want? Where people can’t even ask a simple question without getting lectured on how they should do their own research.
Technically, of course [mod name removed] is correct. We can find the answer to just about anything online these days. So, if that is true why don’t we all stop asking each other questions about anything? Well, sociopaths don’t understand that knowledge gained from social interaction is remembered better than information being read or gained in any other way. As a professional, credentialed teacher I know this. Humans have evolved to construct knowledge through social interaction. But not only that, it’s more fun and interesting to talk to people about subjects you are interested in and learn at the same time. Yes, learning can be social and fun. So why would a person insult and scold another grown man for seeking information in a social setting? Well, only a sociopath would not get why that is so important. Part of the fun of chess.com is communicating on the forum about chess with people from around the world. I’m not sure why [mod name removed] goes on the forum if he can just find information elsewhere on the web. Maybe it’s so he can bully and criticize others to make himself feel better.
So let’s look at the kind of world[mod name removed] wants: It is a world where if a son asks his father, where do babies come from, the father immediately scolds and chastises and shames the son and tells him, “There are encyclopedias online, why don’t you just stop being lazy and look it up yourself?”
In [mod name removed] world, one can no longer ask for directions if they are lost. Because they can just look at their gps. I guess, we no longer get to choose how we can find our way home, we must do it [mod name removed] way and avoid any interpersonal communication to find our way home, or else risk being bullied and mocked and maligned.
In [mod name removed] world a student can no longer ask a teacher a direct question. They would be lazy if they did that. They must find all their information by reading scholarly articles online themselves, without talking about it with anyone. No questions allowed. In [mod name removed] world, schools should cease to exist. Parents should stop training their children. All information should be gained in one way only, and that is by looking up charts and diagrams and reading scholarly articles online or in the library. No other ways are legitimate. Anyone who asks a question that can be found on the internet with a little bit of digging and good old fashioned elbow grease, is just lazy.
More relevant to chess.com forum, is the implication that asking questions of other chess players on chess.com serves no purpose at all (in [mod name removed] mind); it only demonstrates poor character if you ask a question on chess.com (according to [mod name removed] ).
Basically, if we let [mod name removed] keep posting this kind of insult on chess.com forum, we are agreeing with him that chess.com forum is not an appropriate place to ask questions about chess. If this is true, this forum should cease to exist.
According to the definition of this forum, it is a place where one can ask questions about chess in a safe atmosphere, without fear of being mocked, bullied, insulted or harassed. So, I know people are going to jump on [mod name removed] side, some on my side. I suggest that anyone who doesn’t realize what poor taste and manners it is to answer someone’s question with a, “Why don’t you look it up? Welcome to the 21st century,” isn’t fit for this forum, chess.com or for society. If you don’t get that I suggest you are likely a sociopath yourself.
I hope the moderators and administrators pay attention to the posts of [mod name removed] from here on and if anyone else has a problem with him they should report him. Or just let him go on bringing down the community and go his merry way being that thing that he is, and we all know what that is. This is the clean version.