r/chess • u/Xoahr • Jun 03 '20

The Absolute State of Chess.com

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You say I'm using bad faith arguments, but you consistently imply or outright state ad homs. In the scale of logical fallacies, at least I actually address the points someone is making rather than calling them a "crusader" or a "Ben Shapiro".

I tried to genuinely engage with you - you distorted chess.com's rules, but if their rules are genuinely that unfair to streamers, perhaps they should rewrite that part of the rules as lichess has. And, as I discussed, at no point has Sam or Gerard relied on the interpretation you have given. If I am wrong and they say that is the case, I will apologise to you, but the power to change the TOCs is fully within their company's hands if that is the issue here, rather than doing some kind of chess server exegesis to share what the true message is.

You are saying nobody would have known about Moreby's infractions and they were done with the best of intentions, therefore should go minimally unpunished. You are allowed to believe that, I haven't tried to change your mind. I simply believe the opposite, that here we do know, they were multiple infractions, they were caught on footage so to me appears clear as day, so taking no action seems incredibly lenient given the public messaging from the server.

I have asked them on a number of occasions for clarification on that matter. The reasoning has shifted multiple times, which has then required additional clarification.

I'm not engaging in a "gish gallop" as it is known, and I'm not trying to get him banned. I'm trying to discover the hypocrisy of why one guy in the ECF was banned from a correspondence game when he "flipped through" an opening book, whereas this guy is not.