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Allowed?  I view it as a responsibility as an engaged member of this community and as a contribution to the health of the site.  How else will chess.com get direct feedback on what is and is not working and whether and where their policies and offerings could use some touching up or improvement?

I got moderated and my commented deleted because I used the word succubus. It had me irritated for quite a bit.

And I agree with what goldendog said.  Just because you don't agree with policy doesn't mean you just leave...esp. if you feel the owner makes an effort to keep patrons happy and gives a lot of consideration to make the community user friendly.  I've always despised people saying "if you don't like something, leave".  That should be the last and least desirable of methods to deal with something.  Like divorce. 

What if what you don't like is being asked to leave?

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

phew!! lucky you! chess.com must have been ... busy infiltrating other chess sites' management with microscopic robot agents.

don't count on fortune to smile on you like that every day! you need to start exercising some caution, friend.

to anyone who wants to stick around and complain. yup, you're welcome to. and the feedback within your complaints is helpful for the site. at the same time, just as you are allowed to complain, other members are allowed to complain about your complaining.

That old post was just a very sterile comment on the top-3 match up methodology, and my very brief philosophical take on what and why we should be using as tools. I wasn't naming or shaming (in fact, as I have said a few times in the cheating forum, the only player I've called out as a cheater pre-chess.com banning has been ouachita) as I don't feel comfortable doing so for personal reasons at least publicly.

My only point was: I can complain about chess.com (with some cause) and still be as entitled to stay with chess.com as the next person. So far happily.

That's a luxury monopolies can afford.

It would have been funnier if he called you comrade

good point sigmoid; i was unsatisfied with that word, but unwilling to spend the necessary time on it. are your editorial services on the market?

all meant in fun, right?

of course :D

thanks, i'll keep your advice in mind.

and some are even allowed to erase your complaints at will.

But comrade, don't you understand that it's the future that's known; the past is always changing  <motions you to a long black car whose door is opened slowly by a hand from the shadows of the back seat>.

long live the windmill, long live animal farm

ps i still like you chess.com.  beats pilkington and frederick anyday.  ok maybe not pilkington.

This thread is going to be closed any minute now.

lol

...wait for it...

Well, I've been on the site 2 years now, and I can tell you that the "Cheating Horse" has been seriously beaten until dead.  You're better off just finding something else to talk about.

I think the staff here know that locking this thread would be unwise.  I'm sure that's why dpruess stepped in to take a different tack.