some of us feel...

@very-rusty said
Are you really that bright?

If you were you probably wouldn't be in this forum! 😉

Ahhhhh....I see the catch here you get ignored all the time.........boo-hoo.....I borrowed that from Suzie Q! 😉

-VR

Was there a “price” you paid?

@great-big-stees said
Was there a “price” you paid?

No charge for me due to long bantering sessions with said poster! 😉

-VR

@ogb said
that to participate in the forums, a person should be playing at least one game. or finished a game within the last few days, not thousands of days since the last move.

Nah.

@trev33 said
Nah.

Stop being so long winded trev33~! 😛

EDIT: Please! 😉

-VR

@very-rusty said
Stop being so long winded trev33~! 😛

EDIT: Please! 😉

-VR

He is very stingy with his words and game moves.

@great-big-stees said
He is very stingy with his words and game moves.

NO, You didn't make the mistake of playing him? 😉

-VR

@very-rusty said
NO, You didn't make the mistake of playing him? 😉

-VR

One tends to be forgiving of friends.

@great-big-stees said
One tends to be forgiving of friends.

Oh didn't know you and trev33 had met!

-VR

@very-rusty said
Oh didn't know you and trev33 had met!

-VR

Oh we met years ago, here on RHP.

@great-big-stees said
Oh we met years ago, here on RHP.

Not the same as meeting in person, you can only get to know someone so well on here, providing they are being truthful with you. You have an internet buddy! 😉

-VR

@very-rusty said
Not the same as meeting in person, you can only get to know someone so well on here, providing they are being truthful with you. You have an internet buddy! 😉

-VR

Stees was privileged to meet some RHP players in person on more than one occasion some years ago, and I was happy to meet Kewpie and her husband in Gothenburg when they were touring Europe.

@torunn said
Stees was privileged to meet some RHP players in person on more than one occasion some years ago, and I was happy to meet Kewpie and her husband in Gothenburg when they were touring Europe.

That is very nice, so you were able to get first impressions of those people, not actually know them. When people meet they always show their best side, well you do have the few exceptions like myself of course! 😉

-VR

@rajk999 said
Yes indeed. A man says something blatantly stupid, just ignore it. I get ignored all the time. Interestingly I just pulled up all the players from Nigeria, 21 pages of names x 25. thats around 500 people. NONE are subscribers. This is a poor country $40 US is a lot of money there and I bet that can feed a family of 4 for about a month. So I say allow the poor to participate, without looking down on them in any way. They should feel welcome.

I noted a few players from Mali and Haiti, too -- desperately poor countries where 40 bucks would feed a family for a month. I do not in the least begrudge subsidizing the site with my fee, when there are people who genuinely cannot afford the subscription. The next Capablanca could come from literally anywhere in the world. So, yes, be welcome here, one and all.

@earl-of-trumps said
I should think that there be some kind of inducement to get people to subscribe.
Let's say they are limited to 6 posts per week and only in the general forum.

Limiting “thumbing” to subscription only accounts only would provide an interesting contrast.

@very-rusty said
Are you really that bright?

If you were you probably wouldn't be in this forum! 😉

Ahhhhh....I see the catch here you get ignored all the time.........boo-hoo.....I borrowed that from Suzie Q! 😉

-VR

I really wish you'd stop taking my name in vain.