RonaldJosephCote wrote:
EXACTLY!.....how does he do it so successfully?.....because he knows the in's & out's of this place.
Disagree. Given poor technical implementation of half baked policies, doesn't take a rocket scientist.
Unacceptable irresponsible and negligent to lock serious feedback topic without a relevant response
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I agree with you there Bunny,.....but all this time, we thought he was a kid with mental problems. An EX-employee?.....I didn't see THAT coming. 
RonaldJosephCote wrote:
I agree with you there Bunny,.....but all this time, we thought he was a kid with mental problems.
I think you're a kid with mental problems
Thank You, I'm proud of my mental problems. I EARNED them. And I can plug into a therapist anytime I want. My animals are my therapy. 
RonaldJosephCote wrote:
EXACTLY!.....how does he do it so successfully?.....because he knows the in's & out's of this place. We're getting it straight from the mouth of an ex-employee...... "Just shut-up and give us your money". Like the fire ins companies in Calif. After you gave them money for yrs,..... all of a sudden, Oh your house isn't covered.
I would not even make a guess without more info, but what IB did is nothing special and anyone with a VPN can do it. The part about not allowing VPNs to log in actually would be great. VPNs for browsing, wonderful. VPNs for playing live chess and posting? Nope.
VPN providers can obscure their customer's traffic or pass it through on an a site-by-site basis, so...make players and posters play and post using their real IP.
You won the award for staying on topic. Isn't that what THIS thread is for?....providing feedback?
VPNs should be banned, that would be so easy and not bothersome for 99% of regular cc users (apart from kids at school who are trying to bypass the web restriction). Add on restricting image posting on new accounts and a database of banned images, the troll problems would virtually cease to exist overnight. The likes of baby and Viroh rely basically solely on the fact that they can use VPNs and unlimited accounts to keep coming back. Block VPNs and their only option would be to move or drive somewhere else just to get on cc. (And most I'm willing to bet are nowhere near that desperate).
I didn't read the article he provided BTW, but I did bookmark it. Maybe I'll read it, the next time I get muted. 
I first found out about the downsizing awhile back, a little while after it happened, on a reddit post. CC posted their official reasoning, and I remember making a thread about it as I found it kinda scummy and shallow.
shadowtanuki wrote:
RonaldJosephCote wrote:
I agree with you there Bunny,.....but all this time, we thought he was a kid with mental problems.
I think you're a kid with mental problems
Who isn't here? I've always maintained everyone on the internet is an 8 year old girl with ptsd
Wonders never cease. Here's something else that's new. Normally, IB posts his nonsense until mods & Staff physically removes him. This time he closed his own account. 
THAT's gonna change the profile......
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DiogenesDue wrote:
I'm aware of the link, but thank you. What I am saying is that Chess.com has reached a size where they can actually do something about this preemptively.
The "chess.com user experience team" (there is one, surely by now at the reported 700 employees? Maybe sitting near the Community Manager's office...how is she doing? Been so long since we heard from her...) should be calling ad affiliate networks and telling them "we're seeing this, this, and this...fix it on your end so our customers don't have to see it/respond to it, or we'll be moving on to another affiliate".
With a few exceptions, there are no offices next to each other, with a 100% remote workforce. While the staff responsible for ads can contact the providers with descriptions in an attempt to locate them, knowing the exact link is better and more likely to get results.
Jan 10, 2025
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RonaldJosephCote wrote:
I'm not so sure about that. Normally I completely ignore him but I started reading some of his post. He's an angry ex-employee of Chess.com.
My guess is that's not true at all and is just something to justify trolling.
Jan 10, 2025
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Sir_TrashPanda wrote:
RonaldJosephCote wrote:
I'm not so sure about that. Normally I completely ignore him but I started reading some of his post. He's an angry ex-employee of Chess.com.
Hiding images by default is already implemented in DMs for anyone that is not on your friends list.
How difficult would it be to apply that to the general forums?
Unless that's a recent change, I don't think that's happening.
Martin_Stahl wrote:
Unless that's a recent change, I don't think that's happening.
So IB's happening. Sounds recent enough
Martin_Stahl wrote:
With a few exceptions, there are no offices next to each other, with a 100% remote workforce. While the staff responsible for ads can contact the providers with descriptions in an attempt to locate them, knowing the exact link is better and more likely to get results.
Overall pressure to have the ad network screen their ads before they go out is preferable. If an adnetwork does not have a process where they test run every ad on every major platform they support before release, they have no business doing business with chess.com at this stage in its growth.
One of the problems with internet companies is that they are only too willing to foist a lot of the work onto their own customers instead of having accountability. Case in point, volunteer mods. 
Martin_Stahl wrote:
Sir_TrashPanda wrote:
Hiding images by default is already implemented in DMs for anyone that is not on your friends list.
How difficult would it be to apply that to the general forums?
Unless that's a recent change, I don't think that's happening.
This is a message from 3/19/24.
I had to click the icon to see the image because this person was not in my friends list.
This is already a default setting in DMs. Why not apply this to the general forums as well?
EXACTLY!.....how does he do it so successfully?.....because he knows the in's & out's of this place. We're getting it straight from the mouth of an ex-employee...... "Just shut-up and give us your money". Like the fire ins companies in Calif. After you gave them money for yrs,..... all of a sudden, Oh your house isn't covered.