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I am a mod and I tell you: it's like lawn mowing, if you cannot stop it keep it short.
You mean this one?
lichess.org/forum/community-blog-discussions/ublog-XeZb8VMO#2
That doesn't look negative or mean-spirited to me. Even if it is an engine discovery, that doesn't mean it's not an honest discussion.
lichess.org/forum/community-blog-discussions/ublog-XeZb8VMO#2
That doesn't look negative or mean-spirited to me. Even if it is an engine discovery, that doesn't mean it's not an honest discussion.
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@achja said in #1:
> Few weeks ago I saw a blog post by a FM who started to create videos and post about it. He wrote that he disabled blog comments because of some unpleasant comments. I was surprised.
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> Now in the generic forums (where anyone can post and comment) I see all kind of negative and troll comments, but so far I have had none in my blog comments. But it started. Someone took the time to comment that I had a quicker checkmate. Surely one that they found with an engine I guess, but I decided not to respond. I noticed that with blog comments the blog OP can delete comments, but I have postponed that.
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> Now the question is : Shall I go ignore mode, or delete that one comment, or shall I go and disable blog comments altogether ?
> Curious what everyone else would do.
More than troll comments, I'm taking even more notice of silly or trolly threads.
> Few weeks ago I saw a blog post by a FM who started to create videos and post about it. He wrote that he disabled blog comments because of some unpleasant comments. I was surprised.
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> Now in the generic forums (where anyone can post and comment) I see all kind of negative and troll comments, but so far I have had none in my blog comments. But it started. Someone took the time to comment that I had a quicker checkmate. Surely one that they found with an engine I guess, but I decided not to respond. I noticed that with blog comments the blog OP can delete comments, but I have postponed that.
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> Now the question is : Shall I go ignore mode, or delete that one comment, or shall I go and disable blog comments altogether ?
> Curious what everyone else would do.
More than troll comments, I'm taking even more notice of silly or trolly threads.
Individuals have differing thresholds for managing negativity. If you are someone who finds negative comments so disheartening that you lose sleep over them, then it makes sense to disable comments altogether since you are bound to receive negative comments every now and then. Such is the nature of online content sharing.
Erasing negative comments strikes me as somewhat self-deceptive. On the surface level, it may feel like an effective way to shield oneself from criticism, but in reality, it only serves the purpose of creating an illusion of a flawless online presence, which seems rather futile since you are aware that it is only an illusion. IMHO, comment deletion would only be of use in a hypothetical situation where deleting a comment would subsequently wipe clean one’s memory of the existence of that comment.
That aside, I have a lot of respect for those who give up their time to create content to help others improve their chess, and I can imagine how discouraging it must be to receive low-effort criticisms that aren’t particularly constructive. However, if I were a content creator, I’d refrain from being heavy-handed with comment censoring and probably would only delete comments that are either spam, hate speech, or severely inappropriate, as I believe everyone’s comments should be respected, irrespective of personal sentiment.
Erasing negative comments strikes me as somewhat self-deceptive. On the surface level, it may feel like an effective way to shield oneself from criticism, but in reality, it only serves the purpose of creating an illusion of a flawless online presence, which seems rather futile since you are aware that it is only an illusion. IMHO, comment deletion would only be of use in a hypothetical situation where deleting a comment would subsequently wipe clean one’s memory of the existence of that comment.
That aside, I have a lot of respect for those who give up their time to create content to help others improve their chess, and I can imagine how discouraging it must be to receive low-effort criticisms that aren’t particularly constructive. However, if I were a content creator, I’d refrain from being heavy-handed with comment censoring and probably would only delete comments that are either spam, hate speech, or severely inappropriate, as I believe everyone’s comments should be respected, irrespective of personal sentiment.
@achja said in #1:
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> Now the question is : Shall I go ignore mode, or delete that one comment, or shall I go and disable blog comments altogether ?
> Curious what everyone else would do.
The world is full of haters, especially these keyboard warriors who spout off because of the anonymity that the internet affords them. Try not to get triggered by them. Usually they are just envious of somebody else doing something cool.
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> Now the question is : Shall I go ignore mode, or delete that one comment, or shall I go and disable blog comments altogether ?
> Curious what everyone else would do.
The world is full of haters, especially these keyboard warriors who spout off because of the anonymity that the internet affords them. Try not to get triggered by them. Usually they are just envious of somebody else doing something cool.
Let me share some more thoughts with all of you.
Recently I was sometimes watching Lichess broadcasts of live chess events, and I found it tempting to turn off the chat in it.
I get the impression that the easy access to chess engines and to Internet chess has lowered the respect for other chess players, notiably GMs and IMs, FMs and so on, who play OTB chess. I guess I cannot blame the young generation for maybe only watching chess videos, and maybe never having read a paper chess book, and have little sense of chess history, but it is a different attitude that I am used to. Years ago my OTB chess friends could be passionate about chess games.
Is there is a shift into caring about flagging opponents and caring about ratings rather than caring about chess content ?
Recently I was sometimes watching Lichess broadcasts of live chess events, and I found it tempting to turn off the chat in it.
I get the impression that the easy access to chess engines and to Internet chess has lowered the respect for other chess players, notiably GMs and IMs, FMs and so on, who play OTB chess. I guess I cannot blame the young generation for maybe only watching chess videos, and maybe never having read a paper chess book, and have little sense of chess history, but it is a different attitude that I am used to. Years ago my OTB chess friends could be passionate about chess games.
Is there is a shift into caring about flagging opponents and caring about ratings rather than caring about chess content ?
@achja
Of course, when you create a blog post and open it for comment, there will always be some negative comments - and if these do not exceed a certain limit, you have to be willing and able to live with that, even if sometimes it is difficult.
If you were to delete these comments and thus "clean up" the list, so to speak, you would not only deceive the following readership, but also yourself.
Of course, when you create a blog post and open it for comment, there will always be some negative comments - and if these do not exceed a certain limit, you have to be willing and able to live with that, even if sometimes it is difficult.
If you were to delete these comments and thus "clean up" the list, so to speak, you would not only deceive the following readership, but also yourself.
@achja said in #8:
> Let me share some more thoughts with all of you.
>
> Recently I was sometimes watching Lichess broadcasts of live chess events, and I found it tempting to turn off the chat in it.
>
> I get the impression that the easy access to chess engines and to Internet chess has lowered the respect for other chess players, notiably GMs and IMs, FMs and so on, who play OTB chess. I guess I cannot blame the young generation for maybe only watching chess videos, and maybe never having read a paper chess book, and have little sense of chess history, but it is a different attitude that I am used to. Years ago my OTB chess friends could be passionate about chess games.
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> Is there is a shift into caring about flagging opponents and caring about ratings rather than caring about chess content ?
The unfortunate prevalence of bullet is certainly driving up the importance of flagging. People see GMs and other titled players playing bullet and they INCORRECTLY assume that playing bullet was how these people reached their lofty heights. The truth about it is that these titles players played lots of classical games and got really good at chess by playing classical, analyzing their games, studying chess literature, etc.
I think that rating fixation is a real thing. People want to see progress, and have a hard time dealing with the natural fluctuations that will inevitably occur.
I think titled players are still respected, and people are just deluding themselves when they criticize the play of strong players because the engine shows winning lines that were probably missed by BOTH players. Chess is hard.
> Let me share some more thoughts with all of you.
>
> Recently I was sometimes watching Lichess broadcasts of live chess events, and I found it tempting to turn off the chat in it.
>
> I get the impression that the easy access to chess engines and to Internet chess has lowered the respect for other chess players, notiably GMs and IMs, FMs and so on, who play OTB chess. I guess I cannot blame the young generation for maybe only watching chess videos, and maybe never having read a paper chess book, and have little sense of chess history, but it is a different attitude that I am used to. Years ago my OTB chess friends could be passionate about chess games.
>
> Is there is a shift into caring about flagging opponents and caring about ratings rather than caring about chess content ?
The unfortunate prevalence of bullet is certainly driving up the importance of flagging. People see GMs and other titled players playing bullet and they INCORRECTLY assume that playing bullet was how these people reached their lofty heights. The truth about it is that these titles players played lots of classical games and got really good at chess by playing classical, analyzing their games, studying chess literature, etc.
I think that rating fixation is a real thing. People want to see progress, and have a hard time dealing with the natural fluctuations that will inevitably occur.
I think titled players are still respected, and people are just deluding themselves when they criticize the play of strong players because the engine shows winning lines that were probably missed by BOTH players. Chess is hard.
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