Petition to lock the various "ban low rated players from forums" threads.

I have a few ideas as to how we could incorporate notes back into the new layout, so I made a quick image showing a few possible locations. I'd personally say that number 2 would work best, but what do you guys think?

I think I’ll quote the best responses to such threads here since I’m blocked there.

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Imagine writing an essay on how people under 500 are ruining forums, while singlehandedly proving that rating doesn’t correlate with maturity or contribution quality. This is like gatekeeping a library because someone reads comic books—bro, touch grass.

You typed a whole villain monologue just to say “I hate losing to beginners” like it’s some philosophical awakening 💀.
Calling beginners “brain dead” while sounding like a 400 elo villain in a chess anime? Iconic.
Elitism isn’t a chess tactic, bro.
And if server space is really the concern, deleting this post would be the real contribution to the forums.

You claim low-rated players add nothing, but this post might be the most useless thing I’ve seen all week.
Seriously, Chess.com could save more space just banning gatekeeping egos, not beginners.”

Kavarin articulated this one very well, good job.

I realized way too late that this was the wrong thread, sorry about that lol 💀🥀

Kavarin really did a good rebuttal against the OP. I feel like the OP will just go like "Why are so many people complaining instead of chomping hanging pieces?".

Bump.

oh no! not another low rated player forum

なんてこった！😭

No what I don't think I am superior to anyone else in any way, it's just I notice that most people who are under 500 rating tend to troll in forums or make pointless arguments that contribute basically nothing to the forums

That response didn't really make sense, because in fact most of the people under 500 rating starting pointlessly attacking me and the people who refuted my arguments were people above that. And the comic book thing makes no sense because people who read comic books don't harm anybody else while lower rated players ruin the forums experience for everybody, a better comparison would have been "This is like gatekeeping a library because someone screams really loudly every 5 seconds". Don't understand how saying I sound like a 400 elo makes sense if they are trying to defend people under 500 rating, I'm not being elitist, and removing one thread does basically nothing. A lot of these insults seem like ChatGPT too because that's the kind of stuff it gives you when it asks for insults and it didn't really make sense because ChatGPT doesn't know the full context of forums

I was U500 when I first started interacting in your forum, and I was respectful. Throughout the first half of your forum, it stayed mostly respectful aside from some snide remarks thrown back and forth between stern and another person. The last 3-4 pages are kinda just fueling the fire at that point. I dunno why people can't seem to let your forum die. It clearly serves no purpose and won't be implemented due to severe community backlash.

The point of the comic book analogy was that you don’t know that. You don’t dictate what everyone else’s experience is on the forums, and some of what you call trolling or low effort might be considered value to others. In that sense, the screaming person analogy you suggested would be much more shallow and 1 dimensional, which makes sense given that the idea of banning all u 500s for the actions of some is also quite 1 dimensional and shallow. Whether or not it is ChatGPT doesn’t ultimately matter, they were good arguments regardless. 

Also, very few under 500 were “attacking you”. Most were simply refuting your points, some better than high elo players were, which you clearly couldn’t handle, so you blocked them. Or maybe you blocked them because you are still convinced that u500s cant speak logically and are automatically trolls. That’s perhaps the biggest flaw of your argument: it allows you to put yourself into an echo chamber by isolating yourself from the feedback of anyone u500, because you automatically consider them trolls for being u500, or simply bad at conversing logically, or both. It’s time you acknowledge that the idea of banning everyone under x rating is silly and really just meant to be an ego feed to higher elo players. If you consider something trolling, stop to take a look at what the general community consensus is first (like with the dislike ratio, comments etc) and if you come to the conclusion it is indeed trolling, report and ignore. Maybe this will help with your tendency to label anything a u500 says as “trolling”.