actually.
I realized since I blocked him. he Can't post to this.
awesome sauce.
@mod. I will NOT reveal his identity. but without coordinated efforts an actually nemesis to the website will continue to feed.
.... I am willing to explain the threat.
but I don't want to be tldr;
and perhaps you all don't care. if so, than my vow is worthless and my objection is meaningless.
I want to make a vow or a pledge. While I will refrain from naming a name- let me say that undoubtably many of you will know who I am speaking of; and that your guess is of course right.
If the food of a troll is an attention; this user has an appetite that is disgustingly insatiable. No amount of attention is enough; and sleep takes Too much time away from his pathological needs; so I'm convinced he doesn't.
This particularly user has earned one of the biggest reaction in all of chess history; and as a fan of crazy personalities and ridiculous and colorful back stories I was at least initially intrigued. no doubt that was the beginning for many of us of our relationship.
as we appreciated his energy, we egged him on. Well I egged him on. I will make this personal; for this is a personal protest. a Breaking up speech. and I am hoping a call out to other people to say similar things.... but I take a small (tiny) amount of responseability in the matter; I'm a sucker for a colorful story and for a while he was a colorful story and didn't seem to stale.
No more! my vow is that I will block him for One week. I will not write on any of his forum threads. I will not answer direct questions. (he often ignored me anyways). and I will not give direct questions or answers,
I call on a healthy amount of the skeptical regular forum posters to do the same. Let his posts dwindle. I plead with you guys actually. it is the ONLY thing that will break him. he has an appetite for attention greater than anyone else in all of chess.com history; but he is careful!
consider a protege BP. that guy had a moment of defiant mod bashing. the mods took his defiance as a strict offense against the site. now he lingers in the chess.com community; perhaps spoken up for-- but feeding attention No more.
given this specific troll; I think a 2 week mute would be his bursting point. perhaps in a resurrection he would not be caught.
but at least it would alter his game, burn a new email ; and force a paid contributor to abandon a momentary investment. this is assuming that he has a premium account which for the sake of maintaining anonymity you cannot do.
I do not shame and tell.
but I regret some of sentiments with this specific guy; and my tolerance is at an end. Moreover I have been insulted by him.
the insult was subtle but it is there. he has been insulted me for some time. I don't think a Moderator would understand and it is subtle enough for him to get away with.
now "AMA" me
well except the one I will not talk to. I won't answer him anyone else is free to ask anything.