@Hand-of-Hecate saidYup. A few trolls have been dominating the Debates Forum for some time now. When my subscription runs out, it won't be renewed.
It is hard to fathom the staggering depth of drivel these forums have produced. Just a pile of word turds.
@moonbus saidHow will you not having a subscription to this chess website change what you see or react to in the forums?
Yup. A few trolls have been dominating the Debates Forum for some time now. When my subscription runs out, it won't be renewed.
And why cancel your subscription because of a few trolls in the debates forum anyway?
@divegeester saidOf course it won't change the content. I just don't see paying for dumbed-down forum content when I can get the chess bits I like for free.
How will you not having a subscription to this chess website change what you see or react to in the forums?
And why cancel your subscription because of a few trolls in the debates forum anyway?
@mlb62 saidThe site has degraded severely, and the recent eye-candy upgrade did not address any of the issues which I find increasingly irritating, such as poor moderation and boorish posters.
That's kind of severe...🙄 ...
There used to be sensible and intelligent posters in the Debates Forum on the conservative end of the political spectrum to whom one did not have to keep explaining what the word "socialism" actually means, over and over and they still don't get it. There used to be sensible and intelligent posters to the Spirituality Forum who engaged with sensible and intelligent agnostics such as myself, instead of merely preaching their peculiar brands of Kentuckian Evangelical brain-fever. Gone they are. Fled to other platforms apparently. And then there's the debacle of the Clan System ... everyone in it knows it's moribund.
Sorry, Russ, it was nice while it lasted, but I don't want to pay for it any more. And yes, I'll tolerate adverts just to play a bit of chess with Earl and Rusty now and then.
@moonbus saidMy point was that you aren’t paying for the forums you are paying for certain chess related privileges.
Of course it won't change the content. I just don't see paying for dumbed-down forum content when I can get the chess bits I like for free.
So I don’t see why cancelling your subscription will improve your RHP experience in the ways you articulated to HoH.
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@Hand-of-Hecate saidOne man’s turds is another’s mushroom farm. This is a chess site that offers the opportunity for some “ intellectual intercourse and like some intercourse…ya get what ya “pay” for. Oh wait…you don’t pay.🤔
It is hard to fathom the staggering depth of drivel these forums have produced. Just a pile of word turds.
@divegeester saidI don't see that continuing to pay the sub will improve my experience. The things which have been driving interesting interlocutors away from the forums are not influenced in any way by my paying or not paying for a sub.
My point was that you aren’t paying for the forums you are paying for certain chess related privileges.
So I don’t see why cancelling your subscription will improve your RHP experience in the ways you articulated to HoH.
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@Hand-of-Hecate saidYou just popped by to let us know the forums aren't good?
It is hard to fathom the staggering depth of drivel these forums have produced. Just a pile of word turds.
@moonbus saidI don’t understand how you draw a correlation between “trolls in the debates forum” and “not renewing [your] subscription” especially when your focus is on your chess experience, which will be impinged by not subscribing. A more satisfactory solution might be to continue to subscribe whilst avoiding the debates forum.
I don't see that continuing to pay the sub will improve my experience. The things which have been driving interesting interlocutors away from the forums are not influenced in any way by my paying or not paying for a sub.
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Ole Hecate's Lament
i am somewhat inspired, by ole hecate's lament
he came to mock the producers of thought
his idea of normal, is tuxedoed and formal
but who told him to get hizzelf bent?
we define our present status
limiting who we may be
a chess player, a word sprayer, or merely another troll
so i've brought you gifts, from my bag of trix
to cause yer eyes to roll
let us gather as children, at the hand's feet
listening carefully now to the poor billy's beat
we find out about all our flaws
but how can this be?
we've been exposed don't you see?
the political smeared on the sublime
no longer fun, most folks on the run
from the carnival of the pawn's neon lights
but the status remains quo
(sorta slow dontcha know)
is that we all remember how to fight
humans are so strange
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@yo-its-me saidYes, but mostly to tell you that everything you post is dumpster water.
You just popped by to let us know the forums aren't good?