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Personally I find it annoying that the thought police here are so overly concerned with where threads should or shouldn't be located.  It seems overly controlling to me.  The other day I started a thread on whether or not computer chess ought to be considered cheating.  It was doing pretty well with 10 posts in a few hours and suddenly it was just closed after being warned that I was in the wrong forum. 

I then posted the thread in the "correct" forum, which severely limited who would see it and no suprise nobody looked at it. 

Why the control freak mentality about what's on topic or off topic??

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Well unless you were planning on assassinating Erik I don't think you have to worry about the thought police. 

In other news the off-topic police might have your number. 

Dunno why some people is always whingein' , this the best bloody chess site I know of, an' I not brown-nosin', but there always seems to be some twerps that are never satisfied. I've got five of my mates onto this site, 3 good, 1 intermediate, and 1 beginner, an' they is all pleased about it What goes on with the whining cos it ain't the way you want it? Go start your own

This is the whole point of that policy. One good thing about that group is that you'll get a lot of passionate people to comment.

Yes, but the problem is that the greater chess community who might not be thinking about it yet will be completely shut out of the conversation since they are not members of that group.  Heck, I've tried to find my way back to that group and I've haven't been able to do it yet.

I feel your pain OP. 

hiding behind this blanket is so perfect.  this site is 100% committed to doing whatever it wants whenever it wants with the information its members choose to post.  the sooner we all conform the better for chess.com as a whole--haha

that being said, show me something better if you can.  'til then i'll take big brother.  at least kohai and erik can't have my face eaten of by rats.

Nobody?  My feelings are hurt.

23 posts and counting, actually.

hmmm

Hurt feelings over a chess "GAME"?...everybody just follow the rules and keep the politics to the political sites..and get a thicker skin!!..people like to joke poke fun just to exercise their wits..it's all 99% innocent...

Pawn to King 4

Pawn to queen's bishop three.

Cheating is a toxic subject.

 In a quarantine -- some healthy people get locked up. Your thread may have been prefectly healthy. 

The overall health of the forums has led the admins to quarantine anything remotely involved with cheating. I'm sure they'd much rather not do that. I'm sure they'd much rather not step on your toes.  But they've decided the uglyness that gets generated around cheating is toxic enough that it's better to step on a few toes and shut down some innoccuous threads if it allows them to have a clear, consistent, no cheating-threads in the main-forum policy. 

The evil one that cannot be named invented two things relating to chess:

1. The Caro-Kann Defense

2. Poker

But the Caro-Kann is one of black's best replies to 1.e4

Personally, complaint threads are some of my favorities.  hi.

2.PQ4

1.P-KKt4

.........c5 - if I have to - an', afaf, cheers !