A Message to Chess.com

Dear Chess.com,

I am writing to express my deep frustration with all the recent spamming and unecessary forums. The number of inappropriate forums are alarmingly increasing and, frankly, unacceptable.

Let's talk about [removed]. This member, popular for all his spamming, has created numerous unecessary forums, like "Spam" or "Boycott". Once, he created a forum called "Revenge on Andrewlovechess". Why? Apparently because I blocked him for spamming in the chats. What was wrong with blocking him? That is both unjustifiable and uneccesary.

Yet another problematic user is @[removed]. He is the creator of the forum "SPAM ALL YOU WANT IN HERE", a forum where a group of members wrote unecessary things in there. Are you freaking kidding me? All the spammers get to roam around freely and verbally abuse other members and post inappropriate threads? Laughable.

Your website is a learning environment used for playing chess, not for posting useless forum threads. Members are using your chats for bad reasons, and you aren't doing anything about it. If this is the way you plan to run your website, you might as well say goodbye to it.

Here's a wake-up call for you: If you don't start adressing these issues and put a stop to the spamming, you're gonna start losing members. I, for one, am seriously considering giving up my Chess.com account.

It's time to confront this situation, Chess.com. Start making your website as a learning environment for chess, not a power-tripping website that doesn't care about its users.

Fix this problem, or watch your community crumble.

If my forum thread gets deleted or I get blocked, then fine, don't listen to me. But my one advice for you is to stop running from your problems before it's too late.

Sincerely,

@andrewlovechess

Just ignore the spam threads and participate in others.

They should be removed, but chess.com doesn't care enough about these forums to clean them up.

I like to spam on the spam threads.

I haven't been online as much over the past few weeks, but I can assure you that stuff like this happens all the time. The best thing you can do is ignore and report those threads. Also, both of the users you have mentioned are not banned as of now...

Moved topic.

thank you for sharing. If you are being abused or harassed by any other users, please use the built-in report feature on the user’s profile. This is the only way you should be reporting abuse or harassment.

if there are any comments that violate the community policy, you can report individual comments. We will remove spam and warn users. We will even mute them. If this is happening in a club (which appears to be the case here) you should inform the club owners and admins. Clubs can choose what content they wish to allow and what members they want. This pears to be a club issue.

Crazy

What? u dint only message chess.com u messaged all chess.com players also...

Unfortunately the site management doesn't seem to agree. It's profitable to allow kids, with paying parents, to do whatever they aren't normally allowed to do in supervised environments. Boohoo for us.

If more paying members can get together with a petition, they might listen. Of course there are probably way more kids who enjoy the free run around. Until then ...