A few banned individuals keep opening new accounts, trolling the forums and getting banned again. This is clogging up many threads and I expect driving away readers and posters.

My suggestion is that forum posters be prevented from posting anywhere but the Help Forum until they have completed 20 rated games. That is when newbies get their official rating and it's sure to disrupt the serial offenders without harming anyone else.

How do others feel about this?

Old Indian, chessisvanity, reinfeld, badradger. That guy who's in jail, too. All multis, but not connected AFAIK.

I'm not talking about the folk with a name change or two, but the ones who keep returning under new names after being banned. I'm not clever enough to identify using posting styles or unexpected knowledge of past forum events.

Can anyone offer a string of handles belonging to one individual?

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autoinflammatory genetic disorder that mainly affects people of Mediterranean origin. FMF is characterized by recurrent episodes of fever and serositis (chest, abdomen, joints), leading to painful attacks early during childhood. Amyloidosis is the most fatal complication of FMF.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjGoIGxvYv_AhX-R2wGHZ9IAqEQFnoECBIQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fbooks%2FNBK560754%2F%23%3A~%3Atext%3DFamilial%2520Mediterranean%2520fever%2520(FMF)%2520is%2Cmost%2520fatal%2520complication%2520of%2520FMF.&usg=AOvVaw0n6La0cJPW_A5WGIT4o5cR

Rolf Harris, 93.

@gambrel said
Thanks Obama

what's the connection?

@divegeester said
Do what now?

Have a nap. Sleeping reboots the brain.

@rookie54 said
the mind is a caffeinated child with a drum
there are no solutions, cures, or balms

Agreed.

Here's the AP version of the story:
https://apnews.com/article/bakhmut-russia-ukraine-wagner-prigozhin-da2fc05b818b3dcc39decd40b17d2d8b

Given Prighozhin's recent over-the-top statements about many things, I suspect he may be grandstanding again. We'll see.

@suzianne said
Oh. My. God.


"Dumb as Dirt" rides again.


Why are people so eager to be conned?

They're the same people who get sucked into everything, from snake-oil to grassy knoll. Probably brought up in households with more booze than books.

@ponderable said

"He [or she] is pretty high on my list of people whom I wish I could buy for what I think they’re worth and sell for what they think they’re worth."

Not my Hero, but regardless how high would estimate im, he will estimate higher ...

But if we are at it: All professional soccer players who male beyond 1 million €/a

Donald Trump is a special case. There are people on this earth, almost all Americans, who would actually expect to lose money on such an investment.

@earl-of-trumps said
More on Jim Brown, who is still regarded the best NFL running back, ever. Jim was a great lacrosse player as well, but also,

Jim Brown is a former NFL player and an actor who has appeared in many movies over the years. Some of his movies are:

The Dirty Dozen (1967), where he played a convict commando1
Slaughter (1972), where he played a tough ex-Green Beret1
Th ...[text shortened]... l rights pioneer. He will be remembered for his achievements on and off the field.😢

RIP Jim Brown

Guess he broke Methuselah's record ...?

Absolutely nobody who wasn't born in the middle of the male-to-female gender range would choose to position themselves as a target for redneck attack. I've never understood why any real human being would want to bully a person who clearly has a need to be accepted as just another human being.

I'm not a fan of exhibitionism (such as Gay Pride and drag queens) but that's something else. I'm not a fan of selfies and Tik Tok and "me ME ME!!" either.

Why do the Americans in this forum have to make a red-blue war out of everything? Isn't rational discussion of social issues possible in your country?

@moonbus said
They (public forums) do, however, facilitate inflated egos.

Doesn't everything on the internet?

@shavixmir said
She was better company than wayoma, metal brain, average joe or moth balls.

Agreed, for the first three. Unfortunately, forums are gladiatorial arenas, and sensible and intelligent and wise and worth reading posts don't provide blood and broken heads and crushed bodies.