Unacceptable irresponsible and negligent to lock serious feedback topic without a relevant response

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You need to add a bit of "normal" text because if you just copy & paste the quoted text, that formatting seems to take over your whole post, and your replies look like they're part of the original quote (which they obviously are not)

I don't think it worked

ask the last guy who asked superman to teach him to fly ...

We're all learning to fly, some of us just don't know when to land...

Perhaps you don't realise that you might share the same frustrations as him.

you can see how it all started light-hearted

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/is-this-a-kid-site-or-how-to-not-receive-automute

and finally turned bitter.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/erik-we-are-frustrated

perhaps not unlike your situation when you quit being a mod.

Al was a long time paying member, btw, until he became a freeloader like me. He's no troll. He cares (at least cared at some point) about the community.

some empathy perhaps.

That's not going to stop a dedicated abuser. They'll bank accounts, which is already happening, and that will bypass any time-based filter.

He may not have been a troll, but he's turned into one without a single constructive contribution that I've seen - maybe I don't hang out in the forums where he does that, but he's certainly happy to pile on in a negative discussion. Do you ask him to show more empathy as well, or have you just accepted that's who he is now?

That's probably a bit narky of me, but one of the reasons I quit as a moderator was the unceasing politeness required and allowing others to just continually attack people that I have had personal interactions with and who I know to be decent, well meaning folks just like most of us. Batman would be a terrible mod.

I'm not sure how I stepped into this thread - a link from the other one, perhaps - but I think @sawdof's core point in his OP isn't a bad statement of the problem, even if his solution is one that Chess.com has never shown any interest in implementing.

I'm just not sure how to get it in front of the people who make decisions about it at Chess.com - it seems like there's a new person who gets to lead the moderation team every 12 months or so and before they have a chance to make any meaningful policy changes, they move on to something else and there's a new staff person who starts from scratch again. Maybe one day it will be different - maybe @Richard will be the guy, I hope so!

I thought it was super interesting that the Chess.com Fair Play team did an AMA on Reddit when you can't even discuss cheating in the forums here. It would be ironic if the best way to communicate this to Chess.com was not through their own forums but through another social media site.

By their profit gained their main goal should be the concern for others, regarding when yoyos purposefully come to cc to post the most toxic garbage no one should be viewing, and simply PAY FOR PROPER HELP, like give such positions to the moderators that have volunteered, and handle this completely unfair toxic behavior that everyone completely wants as fast as possible wiped out for good and never be a problem again.

They CERTAINLY can afford that

Nah... obviously you're referring to opposite of the nice character you addressed

This is worse than the time I had to ask @playerafar how to enter the next line without a double space. I'm convinced that what I'm trying to figure out now though is nothing more than a cheap sleight of hand. Call it sour grapes or whatever.

soups has bad days too.

copied from another site:

This guy walks into a bar on the top of a very tall building. He sits down, orders a huge beer, chugs it, walks over to the window, and jumps out.

Five minutes later, the guy walks into the bar again, orders another huge beer, chugs it, walks over to the window, and jumps out again.

Five minutes later, he re-appears and repeats the whole thing.

About half an hour later, another guy at the bar stops the first guy and says, "hey, how the hell are you doing that?!"

The first guy responds, "oh, it's really simple physics. When you chug the beer, it makes you all warm inside and since warm air rises, if you just hold your breath you become lighter than air and float down to the sidewalk."

"WOW!" exclaims the second man, "I gotta try that!" So he orders a huge beer, chugs it, goes over to the window, jumps out, and splats on the sidewalk below.

The bartender looks over to the first man and says, "Superman, you're an a$$hole when you're drunk."

now imagine if the bunny had forgotten to substitute the $ for the S.

in my books, he's definitely a good guy. neither of you think highly of each other perhaps being polarized by the same frustrations but in different directions. oh well ...

precisely. doesn't this sound like anyone's favorite councilor/politician?

it's like you need to catch them unprepared or something.

I see

Interesting

Hmm

#92 🤣 yo bunny.. that's lmao still the wrong superman, but ty yes to show the joke did it instead of poor ol bunny roflmao

Whoa, somebody's moving up in the world...

There's a team of staff that handles things like this, in addition to mods and regular staff handling reports and tickets. I know there have been discussions between @Richard and that team and they are working on implementing changes to help, though technical solutions take time and available developer resources.

I think @Richard has been in that position for at least a couple of years.

They don´t have a paid support?