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Why does Live Chess still forces me to play BLOCKED players?

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renumeratedfrog01

I thought the whole point of blocking someone in live chess so I don't have to play with them anymore. Apparently, blocking only ignores their chat messages, which I do anyways... Is there a way to really block someone?

cornwallconvoy

I thought blocking them did mean you would not come up against them again... I want to know how to stop that too then....

NimzoRoy

I guess nobody else knows how to use the HELP files here. If the following isn't working the way it's supposed to then you'll have to contact the chess.com staff

"Blocking people is easy - just add them to your blocked list on your Account > Privacy Settings page."

SOURCE: http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/122/0/what-should-i-do-if-another-member-is-rude-or-abusive

"How can I block another user?

If you go to your "Privacy Settings" (http://www.chess.com/home/privacy.html) you will see a section at the bottom of the page where you can enter a username to block.

Once blocked, a member cannot do any of the following:

AnxiousPetrosianFan

whats the gossip, who do you want to block?

cheeson

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cheeson

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Saint-Paulia
NimzoRoy wrote:

I guess nobody else knows how to use the HELP files here. If the following isn't working the way it's supposed to then you'll have to contact the chess.com staff

"Blocking people is easy - just add them to your blocked list on your Account > Privacy Settings page."

SOURCE: http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/122/0/what-should-i-do-if-another-member-is-rude-or-abusive

"How can I block another user?

If you go to your "Privacy Settings" (http://www.chess.com/home/privacy.html) you will see a section at the bottom of the page where you can enter a username to block.

Once blocked, a member cannot do any of the following:

post notes to your account  send you messages,  accept your game seeks be auto-matched with you in open seeks  join tournaments that you are running  post in content that you created" SOURCE: http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/38/1/how-can-i-block-another-user

Well I just blocked a member and the next time I went to Live Chess and sought a game, there he was! I am not sure what "auto-matched" means but I am pretty sure this was an "open seek". So again, does blocking a member keep them from finding you seeking a game and accepting the challenge?

1c41-O

You can play a blocked member In a tournament

 

x-1198923638

You definitely get matched with players you've blocked now.  It's terrible and is going to make me go to lichess.  Would be a different story if there wasn't so much Thing That Can't Be Named Here going on.  As it is though it's literally ruining the site experience.

 

 

-FC-Barcelona-

do i get to play blocked users?

Rolfluis
I have had the same experiance. They always let me play against blocked players or against bot. I have enough from this right now. Nobody of chess.com cares. 
x-1198923638 hat geschrieben:

You definitely get matched with players you've blocked now. It's terrible and is going to make me go to lichess. Would be a different story if there wasn't so much Thing That Can't Be Named Here going on. As it is though it's literally ruining the site experience.

BoofinHard

Why did you resurrect this fossil?

8mistakes6blunders

One reason to block players is if they delay or abandon games without resigning. We should not have to put up with that again and again.

meatonthetable

Yea for some reason all my parings are with members i already BLOCKED. becasue they beat me and then i try to block them and its says that member is already blocked. wtf im going to lichess ..the last 50-60 bullet games i played is with someone i have already blocked and these are no tournament strictly random seek games and i see their score with me is like 10 wins etc etc.

Martin_Stahl

This should be fixed now

DrSpudnik
meatonthetable wrote:

Yea for some reason all my parings are with members i already BLOCKED. becasue they beat me and then i try to block them and its says that member is already blocked. wtf im going to lichess ..the last 50-60 bullet games i played is with someone i have already blocked and these are no tournament strictly random seek games and i see their score with me is like 10 wins etc etc.

You block people because they beat you??

ToddTeddington

confirmed as not fixed - raised with support AAAAAAGES ago and told it's being fixed as a "priority". Clearly our definitions of the word are different.

Martin_Stahl
ToddTeddington wrote:

confirmed as not fixed - raised with support AAAAAAGES ago and told it's being fixed as a "priority". Clearly our definitions of the word are different.

As far as I'm aware devs believe the problem was fixed as of a couple of days ago.

ToddTeddington
Martin_Stahl wrote:
ToddTeddington wrote:

confirmed as not fixed - raised with support AAAAAAGES ago and told it's being fixed as a "priority". Clearly our definitions of the word are different.

As far as I'm aware devs believe the problem was fixed as of a couple of days ago.

Hows this got through testing then? I'm bored of wasting my time reporting so can you take this forward as a moderator?

Martin_Stahl
ToddTeddington wrote:

Hows this got through testing then? I'm bored of wasting my time reporting so can you take this forward as a moderator?

Can you provide some recent example games where you played someone you had already blocked?