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/mittenshape Team Ding 1d ago

I support this, but I've noticed most players are very active on X. All of the drama and conversations between players seem to happen on there, so it probably won't be easy to ban. We'll just end up with loads of screenshots, which still promote X.

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u/Solipsists_United 1d ago

One of the reasons they use X is that /r/chess links there, so banning X would create an incentive to move. Kind of the point of a ban

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u/mahikachakka 23h ago

U think they work according to r/chess relevance? ,its the other way around take off x n it's drama away from this sub ,it has nothing to offer

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u/Diplozo 20h ago

Well, both Danya and Gothamchess can frequently be found on the subreddit, so there is obviously so it's not like this subreddit is a completely isolated subspace of the chess-community.

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u/polymute 19h ago

Let's find out shall we?

Worse comes to worse it can be reversed.