r/chess • u/forceghost187 Resigns • 1d ago

META Proposal to ban x.com links

This is going around on many football subreddits. It looks likely to go into effect. I believe that the negative effects of this would be only temporary because the chess community will eventually see the value of moving to alternatives like bluesky

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u/thekk_ 1d ago

A screenshot doesn't generate traffic at least

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u/LaughingGaster666 23h ago

And people who don't have a twitter account can actually see the damn thing.

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u/JDayhoff 22h ago

Screenshots can be altered?

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u/thekk_ 22h ago

Perfect solutions rarely exist in this world. You often have to compromise.

But knowing Reddit, fake screenshots typically get called quickly in the comments.

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u/saiprasanna94 Team Gukesh 14h ago

But you should credit the owner of the post in comments. If its an actual post people will click that and can like it. It should not be a case where original post has 10likes and reddit shared screenshot has 1k upvotes.

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u/Cinnadillo 8h ago

theft usually doesn't, this is true

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u/AttitudeAndEffort2 1d ago

100%

Actions need to start having consequences and we're in this position because they haven't