Why I hate off topic forums 😐

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This is called chess.com, not random word game. Some people literally start World war 3 in the comment section by saying "Who's the best singer". And then we have the infamous "Make a name for the person above you" like who actually cares? 

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Lennie2015 wrote:

This is called chess.com, not random word game. Some people literally start World war 3 in the comment section by saying "Who's the best singer". And then we have the infamous "Make a name for the person above you" like who actually cares?

Boohoo. TICCPROW

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Off Topic forums are there to not talk about chess.
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You need somewhere to talk about minecraft, right?
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OTF is ok, the problem is that many users dont care and usually put trash anywhere except OTF without consequences, "good moderators will move that trash to OTF themselves, why would I bother". I would delete these threads instead of moving, perhaps in this case users would start creating threads in correct forums

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Pls move to OTF
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it's because they make a mistake. It's really easy to put it in another forum topic accidentally thanks to chess.com's brilliant user interface.
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#8 thx
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no one rlly gaf

otf was there for non related chess stuff,anyone cud do make any kinda thread as long as it doesnt break tos

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The interface is ok. I dont know how it looks like in the apps but in the web version it looks this way:

Anyway, everyone can see the list of forums and select the most suitable to create their thread in. But instead many users dont bother and put everything in General Chess Discussion etc

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and move ts to otf bro

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MrChatty wrote:

Anyway, everyone can see the list of forums and select the most suitable ...

Too much work and accountability. TICCPROW

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lunasantin wrote:

No one cares.

Even the site doesn't.

Otf is here to stay.

As long as paying parents use the site as a babysitter

Just ignore it if you don't like it

Never. TICCPROW

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Lennie2015 wrote:

This is called chess.com, not random word game. Some people literally start World war 3 in the comment section by saying "Who's the best singer". And then we have the infamous "Make a name for the person above you" like who actually cares?

Yes. Indeed. There is no need to have off topic forums. The instances of racism in many of these forums is insane. The trolls are everywhere. You can't even try to confront them... they say racist stuff about you. The off topic forums have became a safe haven for them. People ask random stuff, somebody says something racist and it goes on and on. In my opinion, we seriously need to look into the racism issue in chess.com... 

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wow mr chatty

thats a great screenshot

look at all those buttons

do that's how you guys attach pictures and quote each other, huh.

i use my phone, you only get text

:(

this otf thread is a very valuable chess discussion. i vote to keep it here
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Cythaera wrote:
wow mr chatty
thats a great screenshot
look at all those buttons
do that's how you guys attach pictures and quote each other, huh.
i use my phone, you only get text
:(
this otf thread is a very valuable chess discussion. i vote to keep it here

You can actually do web forum interface on the app

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Go to leagues, find someone who posted threads before, click into it via activity, press the forum button

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TheAssamAssassin-68 wrote:
Lennie2015 wrote:

This is called chess.com, not random word game. Some people literally start World war 3 in the comment section by saying "Who's the best singer". And then we have the infamous "Make a name for the person above you" like who actually cares?

Yes. Indeed. There is no need to have off topic forums. The instances of racism in many of these forums is insane. The trolls are everywhere. You can't even try to confront them... they say racist stuff about you. The off topic forums have became a safe haven for them. People ask random stuff, somebody says something racist and it goes on and on. In my opinion, we seriously need to look into the racism issue in chess.com... 

no way bro liked his own comment

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TheAssamAssassin-68 wrote:

... There is no need to have off topic forums ... 

Guess you've changed your mind

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/fundkaveriengine#comment-115091288

Also why do you give your own comments a thumbs up?

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Cat_and_Job_Application wrote:
TheAssamAssassin-68 wrote:

no way bro liked his own comment

Someone has to. Also don't mess with an assassin.