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yeah i remeber your saying you were leaving the site a few weeks ago.

i'm not a fan of all the "god bless" stuff people throw around--in general, but i can't say i think it should be worthy of a warning. 

A few years ago I was invited to be a moderator on another site; nothing to do with chess, these were forums supporting multi-language dictionaries. I was flattered to be asked, and accepted, and did it, unpaid, for several months. I quite enjoyed the status, and chatting with my fellow moderators. 

I found that I very rarely needed to intervene. Quite often I would read a post and think "that's not quite right." But then I would think about it, and if it wasn't truly offensive and didn't flagrantly break the rules, I would leave it be. 

My fellow moderators seemed to be much more inclined to act. A favourite was to post a reply saying "this has been asked before; look it up!" and close the thread. That seems to me unnecessary. The point of forums is discussion. OK, most discussions do echo previous ones: that is no reason not to have them. You don't gain much by closing a thread. It is still there, people have the annoyance of reading it, and then the extra annoyance, if they feel inclined to comment, that they can't do so in the natural way by posting a reply.

In the end I was dropped from the moderators team, and one of the reasons given was that I hadn't been active enough. But no one complained that the boards I looked after were not moderated enough. Go figure.

I don't know if it all works the same way here. But I suppose my point is, especially if the powers that be are reading this, that in moderating, less is more. Almost always.

 I had left for awhile, but a tournament i had entered had started.  To be fair id like to see if things change. 

I don't remember what I wrote there. But it proves a very interesting point: Big Brother chess.com has nothing better to do than to watch for the validity of the comments made by users in the forums. May I suggest a different approach? Instead of treating us like your stupid puppets and expect us to write what you want, isn't it better that yuo write everything that's needed and remove the discussion forums?

I said once, I'll repeat it: this site gets worse and worse as day pass. I am on the point of regretting that I ever came to play here, on a site which I hoped at that time that it would become a serious competitor for ICC.

 You did read and agree to the terms of service correct?

We must all remember that space  available to site is not unlimited, even tho' amount of it is amazing to judge by published content.Already there is need to conserve space and editing the  superfluous helps to do  so..

No, I didn't. I read it now and it is disturbing:

'"Chess.com and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to pre-screen, refuse, or move any Content that is available via the Service".

So I understand that chess.com can delete anytime anything we write here just because they can!  Thank you CPawn! Well, I guess that I will leave Erik and Kohai and others from the staff to play hide-and-seek with their site and with the other kids here and I will close my account.

wow, if that scares you off, then you should read every ToS on every site you ever visit. they all the the same thing or worse. 

adios!

Found you, Erik!

My turn to hide. You count to 100. No peeping, now!

I never read because I expect the site admins to have a rational attitude. That means, if you have a discussion forum, you don't control each and every post of the users for validity. After all, if all users are only allowed to express the official view, what's the need of a discussion forum? It looks that for you rational attitude has another meaning.

Yeah, good bye too! Remain with the cheaters you love so much!

Costelus you are out of line. There is an open forum where you can complain all you want. On the public forums, it his best business interest to maintain a level of civility. Honestly all you ever do is complain about chess.com. Just leave already. 

can we add 'my opponent won't resign ' and ' the player im playing is moving slowly cos he is losing' to that list of forums that should be nipped in the bud please.

I thought you were the guy all about spreading love?  Why are you trying to hurt another human being's feelings?

How many here blindly agreed to the TOS on this site without reading it first?

And then to outright complain about the exact thing they didnt even read??

bigpoison...you're also good at picking up on insidious evil?    I'm glad you said something.

It seems to me that now that there's this "kids" chess.com thingy maybe the overlords here could mellow out on the moderation activities since the rational has been about how we have to keep it "clean" for the kids who come here. 

Hey Erik, since we're now "open" here...

When is the ability to effectively "watch" other games going to be reimplemented?

 Its more than just about the kids.  There are members here that dont appreciate seeing posts that are in bad taste, disrespectful to others, or are just plain rude.  It shouldnt be hard to have enough self control to come here, play chess, have a good time, and be respectful to others. 

If you feel the uncontrollable need to act immature go to yahoo chess.   

Well I'm sarcastic, pessimistic and easily irritated. I don't claim to be nice :D

I feel bad for costelus.  I think he was very emotionally invested in this site and I wish Erik had not said adios.  Maybe there's more to it than this TOS thing.  I don't really know.