Option to block countries - Chess Forums - Page 8

Jenium

Jan 25, 2022

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#141

lfPatriotGames wrote:

NervesofButter wrote:

lfPatriotGames wrote:

Ilampozhil25 wrote:

location is usually related to race and in any way sorting by both is discriminatory

I have never in my life ever heard of that suggestion. "location is usually related to race"???

I'm trying to think of an instance where that is ever true.

But yes, sorting by location is discriminatory. That's the point. Choosing (or filtering) based on location is something we all do every single day. A lot. We will choose something from one location, but intentionally block out others. That's kinda how life works.

"Why don't you go back to Africa" comes to mind.

Those are things that are impossible to verify, and also have no bearing on the chess playing experience here.

But location IS something they can verify (or at least to the extent the user wants it verified). And that can have a bearing on the experience, as people here have noticed unpleasant patterns that arise.

Why should the country be relevant for the chess experience, but not race, gender, hair style, height, weight?

It is very easy to see/create patterns if you want to:

"I have played 3 obese people, and 2 of them played the London. Conclusion: I don't want to play with obese people because I can't stand the London."

"Every morning I see black men in the park selling drugs. Since I don't know any other black people, my conclusion is: Black people are drug dealers."

"I've played 5 people from the Middle East. And 3 of them cheated. Let's block the Middle East. They are predominantly cheaters."

Jenium

Jan 25, 2022

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#142

lfPatriotGames wrote:

NervesofButter wrote:

lfPatriotGames wrote:

Ilampozhil25 wrote:

location is usually related to race and in any way sorting by both is discriminatory

I have never in my life ever heard of that suggestion. "location is usually related to race"???

I'm trying to think of an instance where that is ever true.

But yes, sorting by location is discriminatory. That's the point. Choosing (or filtering) based on location is something we all do every single day. A lot. We will choose something from one location, but intentionally block out others. That's kinda how life works.

"Why don't you go back to Africa" comes to mind.

I'm not from Africa. So I can't go back to someplace I've never been.

Admit it, you are just trolling us, aren't you?

lfPatriotGames

Jan 25, 2022

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#143

Jenium wrote:

lfPatriotGames wrote:

NervesofButter wrote:

lfPatriotGames wrote:

Ilampozhil25 wrote:

location is usually related to race and in any way sorting by both is discriminatory

I have never in my life ever heard of that suggestion. "location is usually related to race"???

I'm trying to think of an instance where that is ever true.

But yes, sorting by location is discriminatory. That's the point. Choosing (or filtering) based on location is something we all do every single day. A lot. We will choose something from one location, but intentionally block out others. That's kinda how life works.

"Why don't you go back to Africa" comes to mind.

I'm not from Africa. So I can't go back to someplace I've never been.

Admit it, you are just trolling us, aren't you?

I would say those who intentionally bring up race, in order to elicit some sort of response, are the ones trolling. I'm sticking to the subject matter, the option to block countries. Which are locations, and NOT personal characteristics, like hair color, gender, height, weight, race, etc.

Burgermaniac

Jan 25, 2022

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#144

wow

OzekiChess

Jan 26, 2022

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#145

I need this please. At least give it to premium users.

lfPatriotGames

Jan 26, 2022

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#146

OzekiChess wrote:

I need this please. At least give it to premium users.

I didn't even think of that. That way if there is extra cost or effort associated with the additional filter it could be paid for by premium members.

RonaldJosephCote

Jan 26, 2022

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#147

77 million people here and you "need" to block someone? What?.....you couldn't play 76.5 million chess games?

lfPatriotGames

Jan 27, 2022

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#148

RonaldJosephCote wrote:

77 million people here and you "need" to block someone? What?.....you couldn't play 76.5 million chess games?

Do you ever get the feeling there's not really 77 million people here?

DreamscapeHorizons

Jan 27, 2022

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#149

Hahaha..... yep. I'm sure a giant % of them have made more than 1 account. The more accurate # has to be under 10 m, maybe 5 m or less.

RonaldJosephCote

Jan 27, 2022

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#150

That number.....77 million....is the number of accounts since 2005. Yes, many people have died and left,....but the number continues to rise.

jasonarthurtaylor

Jan 27, 2022

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#151

Well, the number of accounts here should be positively correlated with the filtering capabilities, not negatively correlated. So if there are 77 million accounts, this means we should have many filtering options, not just ELO_max and ELO_min, which I always have at ±∞ anyways.

Martin_Stahl

Mar 14, 2022

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#152

GypsyStrong wrote:

Why is chess,com allowing Russia to use its site while they war on democracy? We should be able to block that country and be patriotic.

The site's not going to add blocking or filtering by chosen flag.

For site related information on the overall current state of affairs, see the following;

https://www.chess.com/blog/CHESScom/in-support-of-ukraine

https://twitter.com/chesscom/status/1498644222320074755