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Yeah. I joined that group and left the next day after reading through a few threads. The discussion about % move matching to engines and so on is very interesting, but there's a whole other side to the forum I really dislike.

another one bit the dust this morning.

the thread about being kicked out of AWARDCHESS' christian thread was erased.  oooh.  chess.com oh how we love your control

It's an unpleasant topic.

Sit at your desks, children, with your hands on your desks and looking straight ahead.

Did I miss something in the last few dying minutes of that thread?  I could see the potential for it, but last I looked there was nothing there that I'd have thought warranted it's deletion.

I, too, thought it was pretty tame.

It seems there may be more than just one faction at this site that's a little overzealous when it comes to deciding something untoward has occurred.

what the flyin' does 'vagal' mean, Schachgeek ???????

yeah they miss the mark 'round here quite a lot--but they sure 're quick to remind us who's 'ncharge and to ask us to be patient and support them.  whatev.

It amazes me that people that agree to the term of service when they sign up for this site now have issues with it.  If you didnt agree with the terms that YOU agreed to then why did you sign up?

That whole "big brother" mentality is self defeating.  If you truely dont agree with what goes on here, then start your own chess site with your own rules. 

I might even jon if i agree with the site rules 

this site a bloody sight less 'prefect' controlled than others - chill an' enjoy - an' chessgeek, what the flyin' does 'vagal' mean ???

i do feel self-defeated.  i couldn't figure out why.  this must be it.

or maybe chess.com's inconsistency and waffley-ness really is annoying and we should talk about it.

Isn't vasovagal syncope just another term for fainting. And isn't fainting cause by loss of blood to the brain?

someone clipped my post.  anyone wanna guess who it was?  i guess i should be happy--i got a PM telling me i was out of line.

remember back in the days of the soviet union when the proleteriat questioned the leaders...?

at least i didn't end up dead or in siberia. 

Part of what goes on here--a very small part--I truly don't agree with, yet I see no need to leave. Should I leave?

The censorship has been ridiculous on occasion. In the cheating forum I said that we should trust the top-3 match up method first and foremost, as a methodology we can see and test ourselves. This comment got deleted. Later I figured out that it was probably interpreted by a mod as a "criticism" of their secret anti-cheating methods that no one knows about, though I hadn't figured chess.com's system into the original intent of my post.

Either way, the censor's heavy hand was evident, and I disagree wholly that my comment should have been censored. Really indefensible, in my opinion.

So should I either not complain or just leave?

Aren't I allowed without apology to complain and stick around too?

Maybe there should be a forum where you're allowed to say what you want.  But I suspect that would quickly go chatoic.

Open discussions group

There is, but oddly enough there isn't a lot of discussion going.

If all you said was that top 3 matchups should be trusted, you deserve an apology as erik has said that 40% of their methodology is based on top 3 matchups. If your post also contained badmouthing of their policy against cheating or something I can understand, but by the way you described it, It seems like a mod got a bit over zealous.