Support my campaign for chess.com staff member!

If I may suggest another policy: when a new member from India joins, ask them 'Are you going to spam adverts?' with a yes/no option.  This will 100% stop the spam.

I also wanted to become moderator 6 months ago (but yeah, pdela asked first)

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/forums-nonsense-i-have-the-solution

not if these mexicans are coming grandmasterly!

...and they must be Trump supporters 

These policies are equivalent to throwing tons of confetti along with lit dynamite down a city sewer--creating a display of sound and color the likes of which are rarely seen on this planet--and as such have my full support.

Hello everyone! Thank you for all of your policy suggestions! I'm glad to see that so many members of the community are genuinely concerned about the future of this site, and are interested in engaging in intellectual debate about how we can make this site better. Thanks to all of you, I am now all the more confident that our movement will be a success.

Now, to address some of your specific questions:

1. The so-called "spammers" are perhaps the most marginzalied group on this site. They are banned en masse and on a regular basis for the crime of posting on the forums. At the same time, to add insult to injury, people who make esoteric chess-related threads that none but a priveleged few can understand are not only not punished, but seem to be held in high esteem by some sectors of the community. As a staff member, I will reverse this perverse trend by recognizing the contributions of "spammers" to the forums. They will no longer be banned; in addition, their threads will also become more visible, as I will eliminate the current system where a thread needs to have at least 2 posts to show up under the "Most Recent" section.

2. I will welcome everyone to chess.com - so long as they are not GMs, or other titled players who refuse to abide by the contract - regardless of nationality or political leanings. My end goal is to make chess.com a website of the patzers, by the patzers and for the patzers, and for that purpose I would like to see patzers from all over the world join this site and make it their home.

Marco would love this!

3. The firewall will be paid for with a subsidy from the US government. No members of chess.com will have to pay a cent of their own money for it. As for your second question, kingofshedinjas, that is simply not a possibility. With the movement that we have building up, Erik will have no choice but to listen to the will of the people and make me a staff member Otherwise, he risks losing every single one of his customers and ultimately going bankrupt. So it's a choice between appointing me to fix chess.com, or losing chess.com altogether. I think Erik is smart enough to see what the correct choice is.

shut up macer! It's my turn

It appears that my post on the first page of the daily puzzle promoting my campaign has been deleted. And unlike some other instances, where the mods delete the post but keep the hard-earned slot of the member who posted it, this time deleted my comment entirely - it's as if I never posted.

This is just one more example of how the current staff are trying to silence us. But do not worry, my supporters - their pathetic efforts are bound to fail, especially now that I have received the endorsement of one of the most esteemed and beloved people on chess.com! Bestpony already mentioned it in a previous post, and today the official report by Chess.com Magazine has come out, so no doubt people all over the world will hear about this endorsement!

I should think there's room for both of you on the staff team.

The dynamic duo  :)

And the Ratster!

Dream team 

VOTING FOR YOU MACER. WE THE TROLLS OF CHESS.COM VOTE FOR YOU!

I'm no Troll or Trollete for that matter. Still Macer gets my vote unless the equivalent of Hillary Clinton runs for mod. 

Ha. :) :) :) :) :)

Great. Vote for the king of Trolls!

MACER is the best! I've never met another active chess.com user that is nice to everybody. Except me of course.

I thought they had standards?!

No,