tell me why I should subscribe here

Originally posted by eldragonfly
Ahhhh.... the "definitions" game. Truly the mark of someone who doesn't have alot to say, and as is extremely obvious here, clearly lacks any critical thinking skillz.

Wrong as usual dragonfire. You are not addressing the issues, only engaging in witless personal attacks and your now trademark faulty rebuttals.

He made a very long post in this very page about the issue to which you answered that he is just shifting his position.

Continue barking. I have nothing to do.

Originally posted by kbaumen
He made a very long post in this very page about the issue to which you answered that he is just shifting his position.

No he made a very long post laced with worthless, gutless and childish ad hominems. Something tells me you are functionally illiterate kbaumen, or at the very least unable to parse simple english sentences.

Originally posted by eldragonfly
No he made a very long post laced with worthless, gutless and childish ad hominems. Something tells me you are functionally illiterate kbaumen, or at the very least unable to parse simple english sentences.

Can you, please, quote an ad hominem from his post? Will you do it for me? I'm illiterate, I can't find one.

Originally posted by kbaumen
I'm illiterate,

There you go.

Originally posted by eldragonfly
There you go.

Did you read the whole post?

Originally posted by eldragonfly
No he made a very long post laced with worthless, gutless and childish ad hominems. Something tells me you are functionally illiterate kbaumen, or at the very least unable to parse simple english sentences.

No he made a very long post laced with worthless, gutless and childish ad hominems.

Nice self-characteristic 😀

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Hey, it's your money. Go where you think the best value is. Or freeload. If you don't want more than 6 games at a time, there's really no reason to subscribe here or anywhere else.

Good point.

Originally posted by !~TONY~!
1.) Then go to chesshere.com. I don't think anyone's going to be too torn up about it. Don't troll around the RHP forums with some attitude if you'd rather be somewhere else.

2.) Being a game mod here, I think people blow up the amount of engine users on this site 50 fold.

3.) People like playing in tournaments for the fun of it, and for the competi tions for others. Convincing arguments for not subscribing though. Sharp as a tack.

1. Ok fair enough, I'll try to tone down the trolling.

2. A former game mod says 10 users on the first page and more on the second are sure cheaters, you think thats a significant problem?

3. Because you get too many games that way, after you've joined a tournament you usually get atleast eight games, than if you advance you forget about it, you get another unsuspected 8 games that you forgot about. Add to that your 10 clan games and 2 sieges and you've all of sudden easily eclipsed your quota of 20 games and you're doing 40. And it turns into a full time job.

4. Yes thats true good point. I'm surprised a clan like the bad bishops doesn't care that you're not playing.

5. Because I care about having a small game load, and thats very important to me as a potential subscriber. The thing that attracts me to being a subscriber is A) clans with friends and B) and maybe Tournaments. However I dont want to give up my small game load, and I want to be able to clear games quickly. I mean look at your graph it looks like a ski slope, can you honestly say you havent had trouble keeping your game load down?

I would say that a decent amount of subscribers pay for RHP simply to support the site. You seem to forget that two very cool British dudes run this site, depending on it for putting food in front of their families.

I don't really care about Russ to be honest with you and I dont think he deserves any donations especially how he's handled the whole game moderation debacle. What I care about is a product. How is his product better than chess.com or even Gameknot.

Originally posted by NorrisB
2. A former game mod says 10 users on the first page and more on the second are sure cheaters, you think thats a significant problem?

rocketscience my dear man, rocketscience. There is an extremely popular myth circulating around rhp that there are only a sparse handful of cheaters here, and that they are all rated around 2000 and higher. 😕

Originally posted by NorrisB
1. Ok fair enough, I'll try to tone down the trolling.

2. A former game mod says 10 users on the first page and more on the second are sure cheaters, you think thats a significant problem?

3. Because you get too many games that way, after you've joined a tournament you usually get atleast eight games, than if you advance you forget about it, you get ...[text shortened]... I care about is a product. How is his product better than chess.com or even Gameknot.

I don't know much about Chess.com but GameKnot is absolutely overrun with engines. Cyrano, one of their top players there, was IronMan31 here who was #1 on this site for quite some time before being banned as a blatant engine user. nmdavidb, another cheat recently banned from here, is now on Gameknot cheating as well. Russ' fumbling of the Game Mod situation over the last six months is regrettable; but GK really doesn't care if they have engine users or not.

Originally posted by eldragonfly
... there are only a sparse handful of cheaters here, and that they are all rated around 2000 and higher. 😕

Seriously, what program are you running to generate these posts? You've been corrected on this straw-man more times than I can count.

Originally posted by exigentsky
Seriously, what program are you running to generate these posts? You've been corrected on this straw-man more times than I can count.

seriously exigentsky until Dragonfire clarified/changed his otherwise nonsensical statements, and !Tony did a complete 180, this idea was adhered to almost like religious doctrine.

Originally posted by no1marauder
I don't know much about Chess.com but GameKnot is absolutely overrun with engines. Cyrano, one of their top players there, was IronMan31 here who was #1 on this site for quite some time before being banned as a blatant engine user. nmdavidb, another cheat recently banned from here, is now on Gameknot cheating as well. Russ' fumbling of the Game Mod situa ...[text shortened]... last six months is regrettable; but GK really doesn't care if they have engine users or not.

chess.com have a system in place for banning cheats. I was playing one who was as obvious as some on here. Two days later he was gone. No list of banned players though, you have to look at the player profile to find out what has happened. If a player is banned a note on his profile says quite clearly why.

Originally posted by Kepler
chess.com have a system in place for banning cheats. I was playing one who was as obvious as some on here. Two days later he was gone. No list of banned players though, you have to look at the player profile to find out what has happened. If a player is banned a note on his profile says quite clearly why.

Sorry, if this is a stupid question and everyone knows the answer but can we see a list of banned players here? If so, then where? Plain curiosity.

Originally posted by kbaumen
Sorry, if this is a stupid question and everyone knows the answer but can we see a list of banned players here? If so, then where? Plain curiosity.

It is too bad, but for some reason the admins took the list down a month or so back.

The list included users with more than one user name, 3b was engine and other sorts of chess cheaters, and also 3c Naughty people who harassed other users or everyone.

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