Rude players

I'm just going to leave this here

[Please don't - naming & shaming players in the forums is not the way to handle this sort of thing. See our FAQ for some tips on dealing with rude or abusive players, which gives the complete range of options (including reporting them). Thanks! David, moderator]

Yes. his rating was substantially higher. His skill level, however, is not at all related to his rudeness level.

Idk if it's just me but I don't like it when I compliment them by saying "you're pretty good" or "good move" and you absolutely KNOW they saw it and they don't reply with a thanks or anything like that. It's like if someone in person compliments you on your outfit, would you just stare at them and walk away? Uh, no! Rude

At the end of the game, I just say good game. If I was at an OTB chess tournament, I would be like good game and ask if he/she would like to analyze the game. But like SierraLuv said if someone in person compliments you on your outfit, and you just stare at them and walk away. That would be very awkward and embarrasing for the person who was complimenting. lol It just seems funny in my head if that actually happened.

You can just report him on chess.com for bad sportsmanship if you want. 

Atleast they aren't as bad as Judit Polgar. She used Calvin Klein's "Obsession" cologne to confuse and slow down the mental processes of her opponets.

Looked into it. Chess.com has a note discouraging reporting players for issues that can simply be solved by 'disabling chat'. Thing is: this guys page has notes turned off, so you can only assume other people have had problems with him

Interesting to see that chess.com is more invested in censoring players who have been victim to rudeness and fowl speech than those who actually commit it!

If what I am doing truly counts as naming and shaming than that implies that he must have been doing something wrong. Yet, chess.com will do nothing about it. 

Isn't that just something.

You can block the person.

You can report them here:

https://support.chess.com/customer/portal/emails/new

already blocked, see previos comments for my response to the second suggestion.

My point here is not that chess.com needs to get rid of players for being rude. That is their right to say as they wish and may momentarily offend me but not enough to throw a fit. My point is that if rude players are allowed to be rude and abraisive, there should be no rule against bringing attention to it in the forums or otherwise. 

I've seen plenty of examples of the staff here censoring posts about rude or offensive players in the past, and for what? so nobody else can be warned to avoid them? so they can carry on defiling the sportsmanship of the game? not only should "publically naming and shaming" - as the staff calls it - be allowed, it should be encouraged! The administration hardly does anything else to discourage this kind of behavior unless it is particularly heinous. But bad sportsmanship is bad sportsmanship.

Maybe camoflague your messages as a way of pointing out the people to avoid:

Strong Chess Players:

1. Player A

2. Player B

3. Player C

Nice Guys:

1. Player D

2. Player E

3. Player F

Clowns:

1. Player G

2. Player H

3. Player I

Admins:

1. Player J

2. Player K

3. Player L

I hope you know which category the people you want to warn others about goes under!  :-)

I find this policy against "naming and shaming" to be incredibly fallacious. The term seems to imply that the poster somehow commited an action in bad taste. But how is my displaying SOMEONE ELSES words negative unless that second party did something negative. And in that case, what is the real variable here. My posting or the goodness or badness of the persons words that I post? Would my topic be removed if I posted a friendly encounter? of course not! Because my post itself is not source of negativity or positivity, it is the other players actions. 

Now, did I say anything mean about them in my post? no, I simply presented a chat manuscript to the public, facts, and nothing more. People are free to draw any conclusion they wish. So again, how is that publically shaming a player? if their is any shaming being done it is by themselves, I merely made it accessible. Facts need not be sensored in the 21st century.

The admin category is hilarious.

No public outcry here. I posted to point out a rude player because they had comments disabled on their profile. 

That is my point though, there isn't really any logical reason that I or any other player should not be able to publically post their interactions with other players, and thus should not be censored. The player did nothing wrong besides just making an *** of himself. I did not direct anything malicious towards them by making this post, so it need not violate any reasonable code of ethics.

oh come on its not that bad is it? 

Fact of the matter is, an accusation is just that - an accusation. People can make false accusations just as easily as a real one - screen shots can be faked. Chess.com treats abuse seriously and investigates ALL reports, but everyone is entitled to a degree of privacy as well as the presumption of innocence.

If you want the abuse to be addressed, report it. But please don't start a public topic about it that names names and reproduces the abuse.

Thanks!