How do you know if u are muted

title says it all

Correct yes 👍

The text box that you used to type your post would not be there and instead you get a message from chess.com that your account has been disabled from chat.

you cant comment and you will see the blue lines

All answers imply this is a binary switch, but aren't there like a dozen layers here? for example, during a game, isn't there an admin setting that makes it say chat disabled to the other player, but I can chat all day long and they won't even get a notification? That's one example but another is a setting that makes your challenges take like 10 minutes to be visible to other players.

It's sorta like the covid, even if you have it, you may not know it. If you don't do anything or have anything that indicates you are muted, you may never know. Also like covid, it takes independent verification from someone other than yourself to know for sure if it's there. 

I'm assuming that's something you would have to check to know for sure. If you don't check those, or you don't sign on for a few days, is there another way to find out without asking?

I thought I was partially muted so i sent an email to customer service.  Their reply implied that I was. They claimed to restore my account. A week later I had a different yet similar issue.  Then I month later I had both issues. When I asked what I did wrong they give vague answers feigning surprise and did the "I'll reply to a question you didn't ask instead of your actual questions" trick.

Checking to see if I've been muted thanks. 

I can see your post, why would you be muted? 

Mods don't get paid

But if a member is muted by a mod or staff, it was for a breach of Community Policies.

Yes, there is a free membership, which comes out to essentially nothing for the time spent.

As to being stated, they are, in multiple places. The more important things:

https://www.chess.com/legal/user-agreement

https://www.chess.com/legal/community

Members aren't muted for unpopular or unwanted opinions.  And you're certainly free to the opinion that the site would be better without moderators. It's certainly not correct and things would be really bad without them.

You can suggest that to staff, but I can pretty much guarantee that's not going to happen. 

I already know the benefit when I get on the site when  there hasn't been forum mod coverage for a few hours and there's a ton of topics to clean up. The vast majority of regular member would be perfectly fine without moderators available but those that get modded would have a field day with it.

   When 6 moderators drag you into a room and do THIS to you.........that's when you know you're muted.                                                                                                                                                 I know because it happened to me.........and I liked it.

That's not the way most forums work, especially if they are part of a company or organization. They're going to moderate topics with community moderators or staff 

How do u know if you are muted? With certain individuals,(one in particular), it’s just a given! 🤐

    On all major platforms, Chess.com's rules are about the same as everyone else's. I belong to a number of Drum sites,...and its the same thing....no religion,..no politics, & no bad mouthing. 

The cool thing about the internet, if you can't find a site that caters to your desire for unmoderated content, you can always create your own