The State of the Forums or Down the Rabbit Hole
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To go down Mr Carrols rabbit hole you’ll need a considerable quantity of grade A opium
Jun 9, 2021
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#22
Cornfed wrote:
To me the 'weakness' is the...emphasis of fluff by the powers that be (ahem...POG,
I pretty much agree with this 1000%.
Though in addition to their emphasis on fluff, I'd add the site's abandonment of serious content and the administrators' aloofness and detachment.
Jun 9, 2021
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#23
NikolaiSpongnikov wrote:
To go down Mr Carrols rabbit hole you’ll need a considerable quantity of grade A opium
One pill makes you larger; another pill makes you small.
Jun 9, 2021
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#24
I have had my issues with the forums for years. Obviously i will not mentions names, but one person on staff agrees with me. But as they have said. Their is nothing they can do since it is not their site.
Jun 9, 2021
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#25
The forums have always been kind of strange, so I do not go there. Mostly I look at articles or blog posts.
Batgirl is the exception; her forum posts always have substance. My gratitude to her for expanding my chess culture!
Jun 9, 2021
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#28
I have been considering canceling my membership and just doing the free thing. The whole site doesn’t appear very well curated, forums are a mess, the articles appear dated and just odd in general and the streaming varies greatly from ‘pretty damn good’, to ‘hey I’m drunk tonight, think anyone will notice?’ (Don’t get me started on the techno music causing 90s flashbacks).
Jun 9, 2021
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#30
DrSpudnik wrote:
I just posted in a bunch of those crap threads. LOL
They're at least mildly interesting, right?
Jun 9, 2021
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#31
DrSpudnik wrote:
Techno music?
Referring to the streamers, a fair percentage play techno music while they play (I’m old so maybe it’s called something else now, it’s that fast beat electronic music).
Jun 9, 2021
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#32
StinkingHyena wrote:
DrSpudnik wrote:
Techno music?
Referring to the streamers, a fair percentage play techno music while they play (I’m old so maybe it’s called something else now, it’s that fast beat electronic music).
EDM (Electronic Dance Music) but yeah
From my perspective, the forums used to be much better, and definitely has the potential to return to high utility and enjoyment.
I'm a Responsible Free Speech Constitutional Conservative, and I lay a significant amount of the forum problems at the feet of poor (usually Leftist, Liberal, or Woke) moderators.
Hypocrisy and uneven enforcement of rules is typical (but not always) of political liberals.
I have offered to be a moderator for chess.com, but I would do so from the discipline of a free speech Constitutional Conservative. Honestly, I think I would clean it up tremendously.
Being that Chess.com is headquartered and based in San Francisco, I very much doubt that I would be offered the position of forum moderator.
batgirl wrote:
I disagree. While they had been declining, mostly due to the influx of juveniles, they were still viable as long as a certain standards continued being exerted. The difference now is that there is no standard other than the religious and narrow adherence to the "no cheating discussion" rule with the mindless, non-discriminatory auto-mods handling the rest.
Jun 9, 2021
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#35
SeniorPatzer wrote:
From my perspective, the forums used to be much better, and definitely has the potential to return to high utility and enjoyment.
I'm a Responsible Free Speech Constitutional Conservative, and I lay a significant amount of the forum problems at the feet of poor (usually Leftist, Liberal, or Woke) moderators.
Hypocrisy and uneven enforcement of rules is typical (but not always) of politically liberals.
I have offered to be a moderator for chess.com, but I would do so from the discipline of a free speech Constitutional Conservative. Honestly, I think I would clean it up tremendously.
Being that Chess.com is headquartered and based in San Francisco, I very much doubt that I would be offered the position of forum moderator.
Not sure there is a correlation between moderating a chess forum and politics. But as card carrying Marx-Engels Lefty Pinko, I would point out more great chess players have been on my team than yours 
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StinkingHyena wrote:
SeniorPatzer wrote:
From my perspective, the forums used to be much better, and definitely has the potential to return to high utility and enjoyment.
I'm a Responsible Free Speech Constitutional Conservative, and I lay a significant amount of the forum problems at the feet of poor (usually Leftist, Liberal, or Woke) moderators.
Hypocrisy and uneven enforcement of rules is typical (but not always) of politically liberals.
I have offered to be a moderator for chess.com, but I would do so from the discipline of a free speech Constitutional Conservative. Honestly, I think I would clean it up tremendously.
Being that Chess.com is headquartered and based in San Francisco, I very much doubt that I would be offered the position of forum moderator.
Not sure there is a correlation between moderating a chess forum and politics. But as card carrying Marx-Engels Lefty Pinko, I would point out more great chess players have been on my team than yours .
I do sincerely appreciate your self-awareness, and truth-in-labeling.
Jun 9, 2021
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#38
batgirl wrote:
I disagree. While they had been declining, mostly due to the influx of juveniles, they were still viable as long as a certain standards continued being exerted. The difference now is that there is no standard other than the religious and narrow adherence to the "no cheating discussion" rule with the mindless, non-discriminatory auto-mods handling the rest.
banned members, or exploits or etc
batgirl wrote:
I disagree. While they had been declining, mostly due to the influx of juveniles, they were still viable as long as a certain standards continued being exerted. The difference now is that there is no standard other than the religious and narrow adherence to the "no cheating discussion" rule with the mindless, non-discriminatory auto-mods handling the rest.
You hit the nail on the head Batgirl!
Of course being a forum mod on the site is like being a life-guard standing on a beach trying to stop a tsunami.
