You shouldn`t have deleted your posts! There is no way those who hadn`t read it before you did so could say what they think of it.
IM pfren (the one who wrote the-trolling-or-poor-humour stuff) is well-known for such comments (this one is one of his most polite ones
). I sometimes wonder if a common member would get away with that. Anyway, fell free to post your ideas and take no notice of such comments. This site is for everyone regardless of their chess skills. It is possible that a 2000+ rated player will not find your post interesting or inspiring but a lower rated one may/will.
Sorry I didn't know where to post this:(
I made a thread recently: here
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/use-of-scandanavian-defense
and it got COMPLETLELY misunderstood! so much so that I deleted alll my posts in it, including the main one:(
The intention of the thread was to show what I liked about the SD,
and I got all sorts of bad comments: (these aren't word for word)and I've followed them by what I would like to say about them
"these moves are ridiculous why would any do them?"
the purpose of these moves were simply to demonstrate what would happen if white continued with scholars mate after the SD and to show that would be a stupid thing to do, blacks pawns moves were random moves because whites moves were the important ones. and some people may do these moves, a lot of chess players have said in a poll on here that concentration is there main weakness.
"This isn't what the SD is for"
I never said it was this is just A use of it.
there was also some comments where some thought that I didn't know that this isn't the only way to defend against scholars mate or a solid defense.
I know both of these, I use multiple defenses against any attempt at this mate so I have the best chance of stopping it, and I know none of them are solid that's why I use more than one.
I also didn't understand this:
"discouraging the opponent from attempting scolars mate is the last thing you want"
If you don't want them to win then you SHOULD try and discourage them, so I don't undertand the logic here???
the worse comment that really hurt was:
"probably trolling or bad humour"
this can't be any further from the truth, I said above what this was for, and even it was "humourous" why is it bad humour? and in the case of the "trolling" what can this kind of post achieve in that sense I don't understand?