Hot take: We should blacklist people from the forum have played chess for less than an hour.

Hear me out: Blacklisting people from the forum who have not played chess for less than an hour isn't a bad idea.

Why? It would stop spam.

Some people have made an idea similar to this but with elo, (e.g 500) where they say anyone lower than x elo should not be able to use the forums, arguing that people with x elo are too "stupid" to have an elo less than x, and would cause havoc for the forums. I think these people see the problem; the amount of trolls and spammers is too much. But I think elo is the wrong way of doing this.

We should use the time spent playing, and if it is less than an hour, they will not be able to access the forums, with an error message like: You need to play chess for y more minutes, and x more seconds to access the forums! This would be a great way to prevent spammers and possibly scammers, as if they have to spend a smidgen of effort more than making an account. Also, if someone plays chess casually, they will probably never reach the required elo amount. If you just play chess, and I mean that in the most liberal way possible, you will eventually have played for an hour and will get access to the forums.

Tbh I might be missing something important, or I might have the wrong idea on how to fix the spam problem, and I know that this solution is still imperfect, but will most likely 99.99% of spammers and scammers.

So, what do you think? Is this a good idea or not, and why?

I think that even people with an elo of 100 have at least a non-0 amount of worth to the discussion.

this is how lichess implements their forums, actually.

Oh! Never knew that!

Not an hour waiting doing nothing, an hour of playing chess.

I'm unsure if it's an hour of playing, or if the account gets whitelisted after like a week. But either way, the spirit is the same.

I think it's a minimum amount of games to post.

isn't this a thing with chess.com chat on live games?

Didn't know that!

Fair, but you will have played chess for an hour eventually, even if you play 1 min bullet for 1 game a day, it still will only take ~1 month.

Perhaps you should ask the mods to take down your "Petition to ban u500 players from the forums" thread, then ...

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Yes! This is definitely an awesome idea!

I have thought of this before, but my idea was to limit someone to a certain amount of wins so that they could not just start a few games and resign. Limiting someone to say 20 wins would show that he is serious about chess, and not just some troll.