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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. 

Very strange post. 

My hypocrisy alarm didn't go off after reading bongditty's post.

Is y'all crazy ?! 

plenny of crazies round here, Reb glad I not the only one !! I tends to agree with costelus' point of view, but I do wish he'd grow a pair

I am sick and tired of "yahoos" like you telling me and others, essentially:  "america, love it leave it".  You can stuff it buddy.  We are at liberty to discuss and opine at our will and you can suck it up and deal with it. 

My issue is with the "heavy handedness" and arbitrary nature of the censorhip of some of the staff.

How is it possible for costelus to grow a bigger pair than he has? he is the most outspoken member of Chess.com and doesn't mind ruffling a few feathers. Please explain your comment, it makes no sense to me.

EDIT: ah, thinly veiled sarcasm... my Spidey Senses let me down this time.

CPAWN:

My point remains that if chess.com is making a concerted effort to make this site more "adult" and the kids site more "non-adult" then why not allow the content to be a bit more edgy here?  That DOES NOT MEAN I'm advocating for animated porn pieces or vile foul mouthed flame wars. 

Grow up, or perhaps you should head over to the children's site.

We are all pawns on this bus.

i did all i could for costelus. i tried SOOO hard to work with him, including a personal phone call to him a few months back. but he can't stop whatever it is inside of him that makes him act the way he does. and frankly, i can't stand it anymore. if allowing him to act however he wants makes even 2 people leave the site, then we're going backwards. everyone on chess.com should be a positive influence on other people, not a negative one. and once somebody goes into "negative" mode where they are driving other people away, and can't turn it around after a few friendly and sincere messages, then what more can we do?

it's a fair point. that said, family-friendly doesn't necessarily mean kid-friendly. i run this site in the way that i think will maximize the happiness of the largest number of people (what can i say, i'm a utilitarian). this means that some prudes will be offended, and some free-speachers will be irritated. well what can i do - i can't please them both. so again, we have tried to pick a fair line to try to allow people maximum freedom while protecting some sense of general good. again, it won't please everyone. below i've pasted the topics that are not allowed. i also want to recognize that we don't always do a 100% perfect job of moderating. we're humans, and sometimes we make mistakes, have emotions, etc. we're trying to get better at being consistent.

thanks for your patience. we're one big family, and it isn't always easy to get along ;)

• cheating to be discussed in Cheating Discussion Group only
• offensive/vulgar language/toilet humor
• personal attacks
• spamming or advertising other websites
• religious or political topics 
• racism
• spammy pointless/distracting posts
• discussion of illegal activities (guns/drugs, etc)

Sounds good.  Thanks for taking the time to inform. 

wah heyy!!!  think u got it pretty much right erik !!but good thing to explain it to the eejits btw, is I still allowed to use small adjective ' bloody' ? - it not normally offensive, but it an emphatic sometimes people doesn't understand the difference

costelus is about as huggable as a porcupine but he did a very good job of afflicting the garden pests (ouachita on down). He had a real and valued function here, and not only in my eyes. He will be missed by us.

But hey, he was cute when he was young.

Awwwwww!

awwwwww indeed, friendly and sincere- when my son was 3 he called it a poke-you pine