Your account is restricted for violations of our Sportsmanship Policy.

"Challenge failed. Your account is restricted for violations of our Sportsmanship Policy. You may directly challenge Friends, or create rated, open challenges using standard time-controls. This restriction will be removed automatically as you play more games with good sportsmanship."

That is the note I got when I try to play some game...

To make it clear, I have being insulted so many times on the live games that I no longer play against people anymore.

It is blocking me to play the computer, forcing me to play with people that have being consider to have bad sportsmanship so to clear my account eventually... NO! I stopped playing people because they treat me bad, I don't feel like playing the worse people in the website for 2 weeks so I can be consider worthy of playing the computer again.

For probably years now I have being playing only the computer. Please check my games history, I play the computer. I do not play people. My last game against someone was actually months ago, by accident I ended up playing a person instead the computer, so I stressed out about the fact but play the game to be polite to the person... since then I double check I am playing a computer.

Anyway... Today I found the system is telling me that I am lacking sportsmanship... because?  I made the computer wait too long before I move? did I say something racist to the computer???

This comes on top to the fact that I can't use the learning tools anymore because they want money... looks like I probably need to take my interest on chess to another website.

And not, I am not filing a support ticket to have the case review... I am playing a computer I can download the program and play the computer locally... I don't need a pile of paperwork to show that I have no offended the computer.

Have a nice day.

They didn't fix the problem...

Seriously, this is bad...

"You may directly challenge Friends"

I don't have friends... Komodo was my friend.

I don't like to talk about this kind of stuff, I have some level of autism, I don't do well dealing in social stuff... I am not good at making friends... I establish routines, like for example playing the computer at chess.com instead of playing a computer locally... this whole thing have upset my routine.

No everybody is good a making a lot of friends... My only friend in chess.com is a guy that make chess sets and sells them he does not be around playing with people... where I am suppose to get all this "friends" to play with?

I though the computer was my friend, but it looks like the computer reported me for abuse so I can't play it anymore

Now taking suggestions where I can go to play chess instead.

What other members recommend?

Why don't you just disable chat like most of us do who are here to play chess rather than read chat in a game?

It does not let me play games. I don't chat with the computer so that is not the problem.

I mean in order to play with actual people.

It probably happened because when you were playing against real people, they said you were a bad sport, and the staff only just noticed it a day ago. You did say people treat you badly, right?

On top of that, your last proper opponent wasted their Queen, and you just took it, and some people don't really like that.

Also in another game against a real player you played only 2 days before your most recent one, you resigned.

Some consider resigning to be  good sportsmanship.

Not everyone though.

People don't get their account restricted from a few thumbs down on the good sport ratings.

I'm just saying possible reasons.

Maybe you trashtalked the computer. Something like «your core is soo slow», «my 386 plays chess better than you, hahaha». Then you were punished

I don't want to play with people I play with the computer.

Please look at the screenshot I attached. I do not play against real people. All my Opponents are different numbers of Komodo, that is the name of the computer.

I have not play a human 2 days ago, I have not play a human 2 weeks ago, I have not play a human 2 months ago...

"On top of that, your last proper opponent wasted their Queen, and you just took it, and some people don't really like that."

I don't know what game was that? it was against Komodo? the computer is program to make blunders depending on the level it is set to play.

I recalled commenting that it must be a computer from China, but I didn't meant anything racist for it... think this is all a big misunderstanding?

I just wrote a message exploring the moral and philosophical implications of a machine learning algorithm punishing me for no being polite enough to a chess software.

The machine learning algorith refussed to publish my message adn gave me this warning:

Your post seems to not fit our Community Guidelines. Repeated violations may result in your account being restricted. Thank you for helping Chess.com stay a fun and friendly place for all!

This algortih will close my account. Think about what it means to have a badly wrote algortim to make decidtion about what you can or can't do.

and of what you can or can't say.

Sounds like it's  not having fun at all,or is it???