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Gameknot is trying to bully me into subscribing because I have a free account there and they say I'm blocking Ads. Which really is faulty because I see there ads all the time. They say my Acct had been flagged twice and if I don't subscribe they will cancel it. I sent them a nasty note back such BS. Anyway Long Live RHP !!!! 🙂




Manny

They did the same to me, I apologised and unblocked my ads as soon as they objected, and they still kicked me out. Bunch of arrogant pigs, no right of appeal, no nothing. It had never occurred to me that anyone would object to adblocking, but then I'm naive on the internet. I checked out several sites but none are a patch on RHP as far as I'm concerned.

Notice from GameKnot: As you probably know, the free memberships on GameKnot are supported by the advertisers, who pay for the ads shown on our website. However, it appears that no ads (or only text ads) are being served for your account due to either an ad-blocking software on your computer, or some other software that prevents the ads from being displayed on our website. Which means that Gameknot ends up paying for the server resources and bandwidth used by your account, so unfortunately we are no longer able to provide you with a free membership.

Please subscribe to a premium membership, if you do not wish or unable to allow ads to be shown on our website. Thank you for your understanding.

We would love to be able to provide a free membership for everyone without asking for anything in return. However the reality of the situation is that it costs a lot of money to run a large website like GameKnot — powerful servers and high-speed bandwidth, salaries for our developers who add new features and improvements to the website, support staff who make sure everything runs smoothly and reliably, so that you can enjoy playing chess every day. The money has to come from somewhere to pay the bills, otherwise we would simply go bankrupt in a couple of months, or our staff will be unable to feed their families.

We hate ads as much as anyone else, however they are the only way we are able to provide everyone with a free membership on GameKnot. The only alternative is a premium subscription of course.

Of course the whole time I'm looking at full fledged Ads flash and all 🙂

Manny

Q: I have now allowed ads for your website, can you remove restrictions from my account?
A: Sorry, unfortunately once your account is flagged after 2 prior warnings, you have to subscribe to a premium membership if you wish to continue to enjoy playing chess on GameKnot.


First warning I ever received
This is the kicker !! POS site I hope it does go out of business 🙂

They been around for 10 years now. Just had their 10 year anniversary not long ago. I doubt they will be going bankrupt anytime soon.

They'll be around, just trying to get paid is all. If you're not subscribing, + blocking their ads, they are not making money.

MONEY makes the world go round. 😉

It sounds like they banned for some other reason but were afraid to say it. Did you mention anywhere that you were American??

LOL no but I think it's an American based server.


Just stupid LOL man oh well



Manny

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Q: So does this mean that paying you money makes it ok to break the rules?
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I swear I see the ads and I was not blocking them. I understand they have to make money LOL but this is crazy. My bad for cheating on RHP but RHP is a far better site anyway that is why I subscribe here. There is no recourse either. I only have one account there.

Manny

Originally posted by menace71
Gameknot is trying to bully me into subscribing because I have a free account there and they say I'm blocking Ads. Which really is faulty because I see there ads all the time. They say my Acct had been flagged twice and if I don't subscribe they will cancel it. I sent them a nasty note back such BS. Anyway Long Live RHP !!!! 🙂




Manny

O.K. so I've crossed being American off my list.

All I can think of is possibly you had some programme running while their software was scanning your computer. Obviously they weren't on hand to manually see what you were doing at 2 am in the morning so I suggest when playing chess don't open multiple browsers or run anything else.

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Now you tell me. I just mortgaged the house for a membership there.
🙁

Originally posted by menace71
Gameknot is trying to bully me into subscribing because I have a free account there and they say I'm blocking Ads. Which really is faulty because I see there ads all the time. They say my Acct had been flagged twice and if I don't subscribe they will cancel it. I sent them a nasty note back such BS. Anyway Long Live RHP !!!! 🙂




Manny

Originally posted by Ratburgers
O.K. so I've crossed being American off my list.

All I can think of is possibly you had some programme running while their software was scanning your computer. Obviously they weren't on hand to manually see what you were doing at 2 am in the morning so I suggest when playing chess don't open multiple browsers or run anything else.

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
They told me i harassed someone and that my user name was blocked....but i COULD get my name unblocked if i subscribed...WTF?? I was only playing one game at a time, and hadn't chatted with anyone there...screw them.

Originally posted by Very Rusty
Wut you harass someone? Nooooooo!

Funny, how there is two sides to every story & both sides claim to be right. 😉