Originally posted by Mephisto2Since when do laws passed by the US Congress have to make sense? If I remember correctly, it had something to do with the impossibility of getting verifiable parental consents.
I remember that debate, and I think your evaluation is correct (in so far that the server is located in the uS). It doesn't make the whole thing less hypochrytic, though, considering the fact that every post is readable from the outside, no logon required. So, if the site isn't blocked on the receiving end, any person (kid) who can surf and read can follow anything that is being written here.
What kid (or any person) is going to go out of his way to read posts on the forums of an internet chess site if they're not a member?
Originally posted by Anonymousnumber1Unfortunately, I would think most parents would be entirely blind-sided by the reality of this "chess site"
Yeah, I would never let my 14 year old daughter (if I had one) post in this site. I wonder if any parents have asked Russ in advance to forum ban them just so they'd just stick to playing chess instead of messing around in this over sized playground.
Presumably, when their child approached them about playing chess on an internet chess site they would be pleased that their child was pursuing an activity that was wholesome and mentally stimulating, not realizing of course that there was a dark underbelly as it were.
Originally posted by Red NightLMAO!! Doesn't being such a ridiculously pious jerk get tiresome after a while? "dark underbelly" - give me a break, Chicken Little.
Unfortunately, I would think most parents would be entirely blind-sided by the reality of this "chess site"
Presumably, when their child approached them about playing chess on an internet chess site they would be pleased that their child was pursuing an activity that was wholesome and mentally stimulating, not realizing of course that there was a dark underbelly as it were.
Originally posted by no1marauderPerhaps kids previously banned from the site, or having gotten hints from a friend about the non-chess content?
What kid (or any person) is going to go out of his way to read posts on the forums of an internet chess site if they're not a member?
Originally posted by Mephisto2I suppose if someone wanted to make that much of an effort to read these forums they could. It's not like the content here is anything approaching the average internet site or chat room; only an Amish kid would be "corrupted" by the stuff here.
Perhaps kids previously banned from the site, or having gotten hints from a friend about the non-chess content?
Originally posted by no1marauderThe kid was already corrupted if they are Amish and using a computer at all.
I suppose if someone wanted to make that much of an effort to read these forums they could. It's not like the content here is anything approaching the average internet site or chat room; only an Amish kid would be "corrupted" by the stuff here.
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Originally posted by no1marauder'Any body got a AK44?'
I suppose if someone wanted to make that much of an effort to read these forums they could. It's not like the content here is anything approaching the average internet site or chat room; only an Amish kid would be "corrupted" by the stuff here.
Quote : Amish kid... '😉....... i CAN;T FIND pawn! 😏
Originally posted by Mephisto2"I was on this cool chess site, where there's middleaged bald men pretending to be young girls, an endless supply of mindless spin-off threads, nerds fighting over grammar and to top it all: people post without anything to say just because they're so incredibly bored!"
Perhaps kids previously banned from the site, or having gotten hints from a friend about the non-chess content?
yeah. I just can't really see that happening. 🙂