A modest proposal : Trolling the Trolls.

I've come up with an idea, and I'd like to bounce it off you people and see what you think.

Have the servers running several identical instances of the Forum software.

When someone violates their user agreement... whether by cheating, by trolling, by being insufferably rude to other members, or whatever... they get banished to The Abyss (the Troll server) where they have only each other for company... nobody but other trolls to talk to, nobody but other cheaters to play against.

... and DON'T TELL THEM! Let them think they're still on the main forum.

If they behave themselves nicely for a specified length of time... two months, perhaps?... their banishment to The Abyss expires and they rejoin the rest of us here on the Prime Material plane. But if they continue their Chaotic Evil ways and misbehave while in The Abyss, they get banished to a deeper layer of The Abyss; where they have only a few die-hard trolls to talk to and only a handful of unrepentant cheaters to play against.

... and then to an even deeper layer...

... and deeper still...

Since you would have fewer idiots on each successive layer, it might not use up that many system resources.

I would pay money to see this!

As a troll I'm against it

To The Abyss with you!

Okay, but don't forget you said you would pay money. Pay up $

Since chess.com hasn't yet created those multiple server software instances, the project is still just theoretical.

So here's your theoretical dollar.

Thank you

NO,trolls are people too

Hahaha that's fabulous BlueEmu.... trouble is I'm positive and sweet usually but then i got told off for posting a forum topic " can you please help me, I can't for the life of me work out this anal"

and the silly mod thought I did it on purpose ....... so yeh there is one variable that can't be controlled so it would never work! The human element judging the human elements!

No trolls=no fun

Yes trolls = no fun

I'm a troll and I'm lots of fun

DUDE I'm totally down for a server that's 100 percent dedicated to crap talking during the match!!!! no cheating though. 

You're being very UN-DUDE.

Trolls should be allowed to roam freely, since I don't feel bad when I insult them.

Nor us when we insult you

You guys are super heros and you need arch nemesis 

All my nemeses are arch.

That's the spirit 

I guess it's a reasonable idea, however brutal it may seem. Key thing though, would be checks and safeguards. It would be a particular kind of despair for you to be lost, somewhere in the abyss ... forever!!! :@

One other thing: While cheaters and abusive users may be good candidates for condemnation to the abyss, trolls on the other hand make use of a rather sophisticated form of polemic. Trolls must be managed, not banished.