“One OTFer’s spam is another spammer’s off-topic comment”
Making OTF great again: A call for the deportation of all spammers.
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Nov 15, 2025
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#144
31martinezab wrote:
DO YOU NOT SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING? THE SHEAR MASS OF OTF WILL SHIFT, AND THINK HOW DEVASTATING LOSING ALMOST 70% OF OUR FORUMS IS, HOW SHOULD YOU DECIDE HOW WE POST WHEN YOU YOURSELF ARE NONE ABOVE US, YOUR THE SAME PERSON WHO MADE A WEDDING FORUM BASIX!
actually, I made it, not him, if you're gonna be mad be mad at me
AbyssalSludge wrote:
BasixWhiteBoy wrote:
AbyssalSludge wrote:
BasixWhiteBoy wrote:
As the official president of OTF, I have watched over these forums for the last 8 months, and it’s clear that somebody has to step in to return OTF to its former glory.
Lol. The forums have been filled with mindless spam and childish threads for years. When did the forums experience this ‘glory’ you speak of? The fact is, almost all of the children who dominate the forums will not join your club. When the club is inactive from the lack of members, they will all return to the forums (presuming they were even going to only be active in your club…). The only viable solution to clear spam from Chess.com is to enforce an age requirement to use the forums and to lift the ban on politics and religion. But the staff will never do this. They have to ‘keep the children safe’—despite ChessKid existing.
If you want a place to discuss meaningful topics here on Chess.com, your only hope is to join a debate club such as Open Ideas and Open Discussion.
Good to hear that you took this seriously. The club isn't mine, and I didn't plan to enforce anything to do anything that I posted.
Cute that you thought so, though.
I did take it seriously despite the fact that it was obviously a joke. Because I am tired of threads like this. Complaining about spam threads…while making yet another spam thread.
Most meaningful topics are banned from the main forums, limiting their discussion to small clubs. Essentially destroying the entire point of having an off topic section to the forums. If people do not want to see the hatred in some discussions about politics/religion…then simply do not visit those threads.
This is a problem that needs a solution. You cannot solve a problem without serious discussion. Something the forums need more of.
The problem of not having religion or politics has already been solved by allowing for clubs with any type of discussion you want to. Besides, not every serious discussion has to involve those two topics.
31martinezab wrote:
DO YOU NOT SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING? THE SHEAR MASS OF OTF WILL SHIFT, AND THINK HOW DEVASTATING LOSING ALMOST 70% OF OUR FORUMS IS, HOW SHOULD YOU DECIDE HOW WE POST WHEN YOU YOURSELF ARE NONE ABOVE US, YOUR THE SAME PERSON WHO MADE A WEDDING FORUM BASIX!
Please turn off caps lock and reread this thread with a more silly and carefree mind. Then, you may just understand that this is all a joke and that I don’t plan to build any walls or force everyone to join a dead club with 15 people in it…
Nov 15, 2025
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#147
made a petition post to implement age verification for the forums, stop by if anyone can
xOTPx wrote:
made a petition post to implement age verification for the forums, stop by if anyone can
I believe you’re supposed to be 13 to post here. Not that anyone can verify your age or anything, though.
What if people don’t want to give their age for privacy reasons?
Oops bad timing
Nov 15, 2025
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#153
#157 Your choice, but then you can use forums. Nobody is making you use them. It would be pre-requisite
Nov 15, 2025
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#154
#156 I feel sometimes as even that is too low but maturity comes at different times for each of us
It’s funny how whenever I make a silly post not meant to be taken seriously at all, there are always a select few people who decide to make a big deal out of it.
That, my dears, is why I get so many posts on my threads.
That, my dears, is why I get so many posts on my threads.
31martinezab wrote:
bruh go get a life instead of trying to ruin ours
bro copied my comment on the other thread
Nov 15, 2025
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#160
BasixWhiteBoy wrote:
AbyssalSludge wrote:
BasixWhiteBoy wrote:
AbyssalSludge wrote:
BasixWhiteBoy wrote:
As the official president of OTF, I have watched over these forums for the last 8 months, and it’s clear that somebody has to step in to return OTF to its former glory.
Lol. The forums have been filled with mindless spam and childish threads for years. When did the forums experience this ‘glory’ you speak of? The fact is, almost all of the children who dominate the forums will not join your club. When the club is inactive from the lack of members, they will all return to the forums (presuming they were even going to only be active in your club…). The only viable solution to clear spam from Chess.com is to enforce an age requirement to use the forums and to lift the ban on politics and religion. But the staff will never do this. They have to ‘keep the children safe’—despite ChessKid existing.
If you want a place to discuss meaningful topics here on Chess.com, your only hope is to join a debate club such as Open Ideas and Open Discussion.
Good to hear that you took this seriously. The club isn't mine, and I didn't plan to enforce anything to do anything that I posted.
Cute that you thought so, though.
I did take it seriously despite the fact that it was obviously a joke. Because I am tired of threads like this. Complaining about spam threads…while making yet another spam thread.
Most meaningful topics are banned from the main forums, limiting their discussion to small clubs. Essentially destroying the entire point of having an off topic section to the forums. If people do not want to see the hatred in some discussions about politics/religion…then simply do not visit those threads.
This is a problem that needs a solution. You cannot solve a problem without serious discussion. Something the forums need more of.
The problem of not having religion or politics has already been solved by allowing for clubs with any type of discussion you want to. Besides, not every serious discussion has to involve those two topics.
Key word: most meaningful topics
The problem is there are very few discussion clubs that are both active and contain a mix of both nonsense and educated beliefs. Some discussions clubs contain mostly nonsense (e.g. The Ideas Room) and little educated posts. They are also hard to find if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Harder to find clubs that try to have as little rules as possible.
SEE HOW INVERTED YOU ARE? YOU THINK YOUR THE ONE THAT SHOULD THRIVE, BUT OTF NEEDS TO LIVE ANOTHER DAY! THIS IS SAYING A HORRIBLE MOVEMENT TO DESTROY COMMUNITIES, DO YOU THINK YOUR ROLEPLAYS ARE SAFE? BASIX, EVEN YOU HAVE OTFDAN, HOW COULD YOU. and also WongEthanLY be nice, go away
I was always nice.
You, on the other hand…