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This seems like a good idea, Joe, so who would like to raise an argument with me? I've raised a few hackles in my time as a team captain. But I will be happy to resolve them. However, if that captain has been very insulting to me, then I MAY decline to respond. I have a couple of captains in mind.
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That makes sense. I like it when arguments get resolved. But, I feel the same way that you do, Shirley. I have not been insulted by any captain on this site. However, I have been insulted by people before joining this site. So, we're talking about 12 or 13 years ago. And, it was in person. There were three. One was when I was 13 which is why I stopped playing chess for 3 years. The others were in High School especially when they called me crestfallen and falsely accused me of saying bad words just to seek attention. They did it in a way that embarrassed me in front of others. Those people I did not forgive and was happy to move on from them. More often then not, though, feuds are basic and get resolved.
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Warning: don't cross that line!
A week or so ago I was stunned to see that suddenly my bio page content as well as my photo avatar had been erased! The first thing I thought was that I had somehow done it myself, you know like when your typing away composing a theme or sending a message, when you accidentally hit the wrong key, and, whamo! It's gone out to cyber space. We've all done this I think.
Well, I was very upset by it, because I am as vain and as careful to put just the “right” photo up, say just the “right” additional information – you know what I'm saying: our bio page is a reflection of who we are and it's important to make the “right” first impression. I've been playing chess on Gameknot for more years than I can count. And I'm very passionate about my games, as I suppose most of us are.
A few years ago I was notified by another team player when I was co-captain of another team, that they had come across some, I'll say, “questionable” content on an opposing players bio page. Well, after I seen what they were referring to I went ballistic! So much so I actually quit my team because of personal disagreement on how to deal with this. I also quit Gameknot. I couldn't stay away. Obviously.
Well, now to the point of my message here. Gameknot evidently received a complaint or they decided to make “an example” of me for my questionable bio page content, and proceeded to do away with it.
I've written to Gameknot and groveled a bit asking to let me try to let me put something not so explicit as I had. My life's story is amazing and I'm glad that I can share it now. But I need to tone down certain descriptions, obviously.
Putting this out here to see if anybody has had similar experiences and how did you deal with it?
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I looked at your profile. It's in the same state as a player on my team. It's been that way since I first noticed him, probably in early 2014. I always wondered why his profile was limited the way it was. I didn't want to ask if it was something personal. Now though, I think I just got my answer. I'm assuming the same thing happened to him. I don't think I ever got a message from him in the past, so I have no idea how he feels, but he's still on Gameknot playing team games. That's the closest I can get to your question.
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How long ago was that?
Seems to me if this is a regular/ standard response by Gameknot that they should be more forthcoming in warning those of us who pay $ to play chess here.
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I agree. People should be warned first, and also captains should be told when an action is taken against one of that team's players. An example is, the double account of vesper2. I only discovered it after GameKnot had banned him, and when one of his team games came in with a timeout. That is when I looked at his account. I've never seen a double account with the name of the original account with another 2 added to it - vesper22. No imagination if he intended to cheat. But he had timed out previously to be banned by GameKnot, and I had been pairing him at his timeout rating, as is my usual practice. He had been losing. I assume he did not realize that it was against GameKnot rules to take out another account, since he had joined a Christian team. I assume he is a Christian. And he was hard to pair as well. I had done a lot of searching to try to find him fair games that he had an equal chance of winning.
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It is possible, of course, that vesper22 might have been a son or daughter of vesper2. They would have the same computer address.
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