Why aren't the forums more serious?
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Sep 24, 2015
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#107
Why aren't the forums more serious?
Well, maybe because chess.com allows people post an unlimited number of comments every single day and gives points for that! One can spout an utter nonsense and keep accumulating points. So, some people keep engaged in doing this kind of stuff. When you have some people doing that, the more serious ones stray off the forums. As a result, you have a bunch of nonsense written all over the Internet and chess.com is no exception. Perhaps limiting the number of posts per day and stop giving points will help.
As the saying goes, "Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
Sep 24, 2015
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#108
Perhaps limiting the number of posts per day and stop giving points will help.
Killjoy!
Sep 24, 2015
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#109
'Why aren't the forums more serious?'
Perhaps because The Germans are not with us. 'Everyone' knows German culture is superior. They don't laugh as much as we do; they only think of work when they are resting etc. Besides, how big percentage of chess.com members love (like) classical music? In Germany between 10 -15%, I guess. Here: 2 %??
Sep 25, 2015
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#110
kaynight wrote:
Germans are too busy playing Blitz.
Yes, and they are good at it:-) If I am not mistaken, they even Blitzed Scotland!
The forums aren't more serious because (possibly):
1). non-serious threads are likely to remain so
2). serious threads attract trolls
3). the more posts a thread gets the more likely it will become a trollfest
4). some threads have been done before and will attract people who enjoy complaining about another thread on whatever the subject is.
Germans blitzed Scotland? They got their butts kicked at the Canal.
Sep 25, 2015
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#114
Pulpofeira wrote:
Germans blitzed Scotland? They got their butts kicked at the Canal.
The Germans had air bases in Norway. Not a long distance to Scotland. They tried to bomb the old railway bridge, Firth of Forth, but missed. They also bombed Edinburgh, among other cities.
Sep 25, 2015
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#115
kaynight wrote:
Clydebank copped most of it. Rotten Fokkers.
Fokkers?? Dorniers, I would think.
Sep 25, 2015
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#116
kaynight wrote:
Clydebank copped most of it. Rotten Fokkers.
Fokkers are dutch planes. The germans used the factories of Fokker for the production of German planes and components. After the war, Fokker was pretty much robbed of everything they had before the war and never reached their old status of pioneers in the aircraftbusiness
Sep 25, 2015
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#117
kaynight wrote:
So much for my witty repartee...
The only way to stand up is to fall down first.
Edit: plus I've never heard from the Clydebank raids. So, I've learned something too
Sep 25, 2015
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#118
kaynight wrote:
So much for my witty repartee...
You surprise me! Did you have Baedeker Blitz in Scotland too, or was it 'only' in the South?
Well, I know they were bombed, London was too (Vera Mechnik was killed by a German bomb), but not knocked out. To me, blitzkrieg is more or less like the the Tyson thing. It worked in Poland and France, but not in the UK.
Sep 25, 2015
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#120
Pulpofeira wrote:
Well, I know they were bombed, London was too (Vera Mechnik was killed by a German bomb), but not knocked out. To me, blitzkrieg is more or less like the the Tyson thing. It worked in Poland and France, but not in the UK.
It was impossible for Nazi-Germany to blitzkrieg Great Britain due to the lack of naval control. Especially, after the sinking of the Bismarck
Serious or not serious, moderated or not moderated, people will always keep coming back to these forums. So, I guess there is no sense of urgency whatsoever for chess.com to improve anything around here.
How did the man put it again?
"As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated and even missed when absent."