Stop complaining!!

turtle slayer seems to be a troll.  wonder how long it takes for his account to be terminated.

 Wow, I'd really like it if you just fell off a bridge right now...

Are you really going and putting that garbage on every topic you can find? You're a sad, strange little man...

Do Portland! Do Portland!

 OK, he may be a jerk but he's definitely been to Portland.

I feel so left out, hasn't he been to Oz?

To his credit turtle is defintely making a hard push for troll of the year. 

TurtleSlayer sounds like a tool,

at 16 he thinks he sounds cool,

swearing and cussing,

and generally fussing,

My! what an ungrateful fool!

Australia, home of Cola bears.

sound like turtleslayer has been banned from chess.com just recently and now he back with a new account with a vengence ?

Im sure you can come up with some original material...

 L.M.F.A.O

I thought this verbal diarrhea wasn't allowed on forums? Such bad language u use.

turtle, London?

  no comment, don't want to wake up him up and let him have all the fun do we ?

"The whole business of swearing, especially English swearing, is mysterious. Of its very nature swearing is as irrational as magic--indeed, it is a species of magic. But there is also a paradox about it, namely this: Our intention in swearing is to shock and wound, which we do by mentioning something that should be kept secret--usually something to do with the sexual functions. But the strange thing is that when a word is well established as a swear word, it seems to lose its original meaning; that is, it loses the thing that made it into a swear word....The rule seems to be that words accepted as swear words have some magical character, which sets them apart and makes them useless for ordinary conversation.

"Words used as insults seem to be governed by the same paradox as swear words. A word becomes an insult, one would suppose, because it means something bad; but in practice its insult-value has little to do with its actual meaning....Evidently a word is an insult simply because it is meant as an insult, without reference to its dictionary meaning; words, especially swear words, being what public opinion chooses to make them."

    --George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

I could have sworn he was listed as American when this thread started.

Ok, give me his address and I'll tell his mother what a naughty boy he's been. 

I am a Diamond subscriber and also an elementary school music teacher who was going to recommend this site to my chess club students. Now I can't. I would get fired. Where is the moderator? I can't recommend this site to my students with this language permitted. Is it permitted? Is this a family site, or a porn site? I need to know. Thank you.

Please ban turtleslayer. It's simple.

I belong to many gaming sites where they are able to maintain a G rating. There are private forums on some of those sites that are locked and only for adults. I'm not asking for everyone here to be a saint. Perhaps provide a locked site for adults who wish to dabble in political incorrectness. It can be quite funny. I belong to one...and the only rule is...no personal attacks. Profanity and many other things are permitted.

Well, that's all I have to say, except to remind the moderator to please ban turtleslayer from this site for a few weeks and talk some sense into the kid.

Chess.com can be a great place for children who are learning the game, and the perfect place to grow the game with such a simple url as chess.com.

Erik has the patience of a saint. If i owned this site i would be canceling the memberships of those keep saying this site sucks, who are complaining after day1 of the TEMPORARY LIVE CHESS2 (which everyone was notified of in messages from chess.com which a lot of people didn't bother to read). You know what? if you are so dissatisfied, stop complaining & don't use this site. Why are you using this site if you are so unhappy??? If I don't like a product, I sure as heck don't keep coming back for more. Erik, you and the others are doing a great job, and the majority who play here realize this is a great site.

We'll probably find out that turtleslayer is actually Erik. Nothing beats a common enemy for pulling everyone together to stick up for Chess.com