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| Jan-27-21 | | realdumptrump: <AK> a hypothetical... You seemed to indicate that volunteer work is one way to contribute to the site, and that buying a premium membership is another. A volunteer worker is closely associated with their work, so that's clear. And if a user buys a premium for themselves, that's also good for the site. Or maybe not. Suppose the user, hypothetically of course, is a neo-Nazi right wing nutjob, whose main interest in the site aren't chess but political agitation (taking advantage of the discussion aspects of <CG>, of course). A contributor, monetarily yes, but I'd have some qualifications about it. Furthermore, suppose this user wants other like-minded company about, and buys memberships for other neo-Nazi's. Are these new members to automatically be considered contributors due to their premium status? The benefactor, again maybe, but the beneficairies? It's just a hypothetical, of course... one could have substituted theology for neo-Nazi ideology. . |
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| Jan-27-21 | | Boomie: I repeat for the umpteenth time that I don't pay for CG because they insist on trashing Rogoff's player page. Not only was Rogoff a promising player US player, but he is still a chess fan and follows the game. To trash his player page here is just abominable and I refuse to support CG for that reason. |
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| Jan-27-21 | | George Wallace: <Boomie: I repeat for the umpteenth time that I don't pay for CG because they insist on trashing Rogoff's player page. Not only was Rogoff a promising player US player, but he is still a chess fan and follows the game. To trash his player page here is just abominable and I refuse to support CG for that reason.> Perhaps you should announce that you are holding your breath until <cg> meets your demands? |
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Jan-27-21
 | | AylerKupp: <Olga Man> Thank you for your reply, it clarifies many things. I agree that to fill the shoes of a visionary, dedicated, and competent person is hard, and that person is usually worth the equivalent of 3 – 4 staff members. Since I did most of my work on US military contracts, my experience in software development was much more structured. We had definite budgets and schedules that we had to meet and the software delivered/deployed had to have a specified agreed-upon functionality. Still, there was a large amount of flexibility if you were creative. Overall, I enjoyed my experience I would disagree with your statement that you don't have a team of developers. I think that you do, although it's informal. But I'm glad to see that Susan has a plan for maintaining and hopefully expanding this site. I wish you all success and I'm looking forward to all the improvements! |
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Jan-27-21
| | AylerKupp: <<metatron2> You misunderstood my post <AK>, I actually said exactly what you explained here.> I'm glad that you said exactly what I explained; it just wasn't all that clear to me. And unfortunately you didn't understand why I repeated the portion of your quote. FWIW I always read what anyone posts in its entirety, sometimes several times. I then quote a portion of the posts that I respond to so that the person that I'm responding to, and anyone else, can identify which post I'm responding to. Sometimes that person makes several posts, and I want to let them know which one of their posts I'm responding to since sometimes it's not obvious. But that doesn't mean that I didn't read the entire post. If I gave that impression, I apologize for that. |
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Jan-27-21
| | AylerKupp: <<realdumptrump> You seemed to indicate that volunteer work is one way to contribute to the site, and that buying a premium membership is another.> Yes, there are many ways to contribute to this site, those are just two of them. As far as memberships donated to some whose ideology or philosophy you don't share, I don't think that's as important as the fact that donations were made and that, hopefully, that helps this site stay afloat and provide a service that we all love. Hopefully all the thoughts we express are related to chess, but we have to accept that sometimes, in the heat of passion, they don't. I think that's a small price to pay for keeping this site alive. |
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| Jan-28-21 | | hoodrobin: I will stay <premium> for three years from now. I hope <chessgames.com> and myself will both be in good health. |
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| Jan-29-21 | | 0ZeR0: <Sokrates>
I am swiftly hoping for your complete return. This is a better place with you in it. |
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| Jan-29-21 | | Sokrates: My cordial, warm thanks to <Check It Out>, <metatron2>, <jessicafischerqueen>, and <0ZeR0> for your kind support. I humbly admit that I got a bit depressed so thank you for this, lady & gentlemen. <Forget about the site's problems and trolls. As you were: in chess we trust.> is a very good advice, <CIO>, which I intend to follow. So, back to chess and the tournament pages. |
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| Jan-29-21 | | Keyser Soze: < Boomie: I repeat for the umpteenth time that I don't pay for CG because they insist on trashing Rogoff's player page. Not only was Rogoff a promising player US player, but he is still a chess fan and follows the game. To trash his player page here is just abominable and I refuse to support CG for that reason.> So you support the end of Rogoff for political discussion? I vote for that too! Or do you want just the trash you agrees there? I hope you are not those crybabies who wants to ban people but refuses to use the ignore function.. You were pretty busy lately there. Got annoyed and left? But if you want to end political trash talking there, fine I support that. But If you are really worried about Rogoff page , you should stop posting there yourself first, and then, complain later.. |
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Jan-29-21
 | | saffuna: <keyser soze> has posted at least 1,500 times on the Rogoff page. And just now he would like to see the political arguments there ended. Curious. Why now? |
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Jan-29-21
 | | Check It Out: Because evidence. |
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| Jan-29-21 | | Caissanist: I have said this before, but there are plenty of pages here which could serve as fine substitute(s) for the Rogoff page for off-topic political/economic/philosophical/etc. discussions, since they don't really have any notable chess content. My personal nominee is Peter Thiel . |
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Jan-29-21
 | | Susan Freeman: >Sokrates> Please don’t stop posting. We need a thread of sanity here.
And of course your wisdom 😊 |
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| Jan-30-21 | | Sokrates: My warm thanks for this gesture, <Susan>, very kind of you! I shall continue doing my best. |
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Jan-30-21
 | | OhioChessFan: <Please don’t stop posting. We need a thread of sanity here.> What fun is that? |
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Jan-30-21
| | Susan Freeman: <Sokrates> nobody can do <your> best better than you. 😊 |
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| Jan-30-21 | | Sokrates: <Susan Freeman> :-) True! And right back at you! :-) |
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| Jan-31-21 | | trumpreallydumped: Hi <Susan>...
Can you please check the list of people placing me on ignore and remove all socks from the counting? I believe <bippy> (and perhaps a few select others) are <"game stopping"> the system. |
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| Jan-31-21 | | realdumptrump: BTW- this is another example of the dirty tricks some play on <CG> - gaming the system. One of <Daniel>'s techniques for handling nonsense and general trash-talk posts was to monitor ignore counts for users. That goes into various algorithms used to restrict # of posts, etc. Unfortunately, <Daniel> failed to account for <socks>, which allow one (or just a few) users to distort the stats. This technique is ripe for abuse, and we know who to scrutinize most closely when it comes to abuse. |
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Jan-31-21
 | | Tabanus: <CG> Don't forget the three Tata playoff games. Perhaps best a non-TI tid that can be linked to on the main Tata page. |
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Jan-31-21
| | Tabanus: Tata Steel Masters Playoff (2021), never mind. |
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Jan-31-21
| | Susan Freeman: <trumpreallydumped>< trumpreallydumped: Hi <Susan>...
Can you please check the list of people placing me on ignore and remove all socks from the counting?>
The short answer is <no> |
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Feb-01-21
 | | Phony Benoni: The GOTD link as not changed since Saturday, January 30. |
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| Feb-01-21 | | George Wallace: < Susan Freeman: <trumpreallydumped>< trumpreallydumped: Hi <Susan>... Can you please check the list of people placing me on ignore and remove all socks from the counting?> The short answer is <no>> 100% LOLS!
Perhaps just this once you can look at the information <Zanzibar> is clutching his pearls over, see that there are no <gangs of socks> that are <dog packing> him (poor little Millennial victim), and set him straight for his own good. Break him free of his victimhood delusion.
Seriously, you'd be doing the kid a favor.
He's this sagging pants, skinny jeans, everyone-gets-a-trophy, Entitled Millennial who wants you to put his sock accounts under your wing, take time out of your day to babysit him and keep all of the <bullies> away! LOOOLS!
You know, it's actually important to keep all of this stuff on the website, all of this nonsense and pettiness. Why? Because it shows the world what <chess players> are really like! People want to know, are chess players different than regular folks? How are chess players different from average people? What makes them tick?
Don't you agree with me that this angle is actually valuable and interesting? |
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