cmon mods, do your job. surely banning mr. FREE BITCOIN WORKING 2025 over here can't be that hard right
why are there so many scam bots here
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can one of the web developers of this website take 5 minutes out of their day to add a captcha to the forums to stop the bots please
Snowy-Yutyrannus wrote:
Doubt they’re checking 24/7
their job is literally to moderate the forums, they get paid to do this. ideally they'd have moderators spread out around the world so that they could monitor the forums 24/7. chess.com is a huge company after all
Jul 19, 2025
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chess.com is trying their best. Lots of these spam accounts are quickly found and taken care of within a few hours of being created (sometimes even withing minutes or seconds), but there are also well over 100 million members on the site. Even with 1 million staff, that's still outnumbers 100 to 1.
R3Ked wrote:
their job is literally to moderate the forums, they get paid to do this
Do they?
Just report them, and move on. 
Jul 20, 2025
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R3Ked wrote:
Snowy-Yutyrannus wrote:
Doubt they’re checking 24/7
their job is literally to moderate the forums, they get paid to do this. ideally they'd have moderators spread out around the world so that they could monitor the forums 24/7. chess.com is a huge company after all
Forum moderators are volunteers and don't get paid for moderation.
Jul 20, 2025
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R3Ked wrote:
of all the places to run your scams, what makes this website so appealing? i don't think anyone's going to fall for it on here, this just seems like a waste of time
Mostt spammers are likely doing it for SEO reasons. Chess.cm is a highly ranked site so they're hoping their content shows up on web searches.
Martin_Stahl wrote:
R3Ked wrote:
Snowy-Yutyrannus wrote:
Doubt they’re checking 24/7
their job is literally to moderate the forums, they get paid to do this. ideally they'd have moderators spread out around the world so that they could monitor the forums 24/7. chess.com is a huge company after all
Forum moderators are volunteers and don't get paid for moderation.
wait they're not?
You may try to become a moderator too:
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/the-chess-community-needs-you
Well, not that it matters very much, but they're not "scam bots". It's spam and there's no reason to think they're not just people.
It's annoying but moderators are doing the best they can. And a (more proactive) solution is in the works, I've heard, my guess being a thread-title filter, possibly, and/or a posting restriction on new accounts.
Squiggle2347 wrote:
I always respond to the bots saying "What in the bot" or "Holy Bot"
You realize that just bumps their messages up, increasing the visibility of their messages and annoying the community in general?
of all the places to run your scams, what makes this website so appealing? i don't think anyone's going to fall for it on here, this just seems like a waste of time