Titled get's rating automatically?

I agree SmylovFan, but i'd bet good money that They would give carlson a starting rating of 3,000 if that meant he'd be an active playing member.

        No problem, moving on.

By the way, I think that really is Anand in his profile because chess.com invited him to do that vote chess game a while back, remember? I'm sure that's when he got his membership as part of that process. He just hasn't played any games on here, not that he would get a rating for.

That's very very true. 

why should he get worked up?

Secondly, you realize harry was wrong?

I think this is what you dont like Tal, as it speaks to a larger problem then mere ratings on a chess site.

That's correct. 

I don't mind special privileges, but ratings are corrupted when special privileges include free ratings. Of course, this site has already corrupted the rating system by assigning initial ratings to everyone rather than allowing unrated players to be unrated and let the rating system work it out.

        Harry's been here a lot longer than you Tal. He thought you were going someplace else with this, as did I.

            What special privilages are obtained for paying members???

It definitely shows because I have been watching some resident titled players play their games... often they are reckless making errors in their position ect. Certainly not a reflection of how difficult it really is to achieve excellent quality play. They often look out of practice and often playing hope chess than quality chess. 

Chess.com makes their accounts for them? Are you absolutely sure about that? Something seems a bit odd how chess.com can take it upon themselves to make an account for someone. Doesn't seem legit.

Well regardless, they still get their rating automatically, whether chess.com went out their way to make a profile for them or not. 

So what are you saying? A cushy nice profile should be set up for what... all top rated players until they decide they arrive here to actually play games? 

I honestly don't think chess.com just takes it upon themselves to create a page for the players in hindsight of never knowing whether they will play at the site. More likely, they created the profile for them while prepering events, like the world chess or even death matches. I don't believe they do this without permission of the actual player.

Define famous, I know some famous FM's and CM's. 

               Its called professional curtesy.  If you owned a restaurant, would your mother get a free meal now and then??    Why don't you Google famous. Your too young to understand.

Can you show us an example of a titled player having to go through the official motions?

I'm not too young at all, I'm in my 30's thank you. 

Seems a bit strange to be honest. 

Like what everyone else has to do, get their rating the hard way. And I truely am inclined to believe, chess.com rating is harder than the real life scenario. Plus, you encounter cheats frequently here which doesn't help.