ProCrazy wrote:
So your suggestion is to turn chess.com into a pay to play site? That would do more harm than good.
"Pay to Play" is a term with connotations that are really a stretch in this context, and you know it. It's not about the money. The money would be means to an end, and the end is a more robust way of uniquely identifying users. Chess.com could even credit each user back the dollar after 1 month of no TOS violations if you really care about that dollar so much.
Yes, you'd see a dropoff in signups if the cost was a dollar as opposed to nothing. But do we really want the kind of person here that is not willing to identify themselves by paying $1? I am suggesting that we do not.
"sh!tp0sting" kudos to greencastle for putting a name to one of the problems that the moderator in question in trying to address.
now- what if a moderator had used that word to describe the "misbehaving member".
is that really, "taking action against her (him)"?
the problem is that some of you would have no moderation of any kind. but I all but guarantee you , if this happened. nobody would post here.
the forums would become toxic and flooded with awful and inappropriate content.
anyways, I find it peculiar at least that we can post something that if a moderator were to say it, would be totally unacceptable...