Can You Tell if You're Being Blocked?

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knighttour2

I know that I can see the players that I'm blocking.  I was wondering if there's a way to see if I'm being blocked by someone else.

I was playing 3/0 Live 960 and it can be tough to find games.  I remember seeing an open seek and clicking on it, but it didn't match me and the seek disappeared.  I figured that someone must have grabbed it just before I did.  I recognized the username as someone I had played 960 with in the past  A few days later I saw another seek and saw it was the same player.  Again it wouldn't match me.  This has happened a few times with this player.  If he's blocking me, I don't really mind.  He can block me if he wants, but I'd like to know

knighttour2

Yeah, I don't mind being blocked, it would just be nice to know

macer75
kaynight wrote:

If you cannot post in a thread, you have been blocked. Go onto the players page, and it will tell you if you are blocked. Wear the block with pride, my friend. Be careful out there.

Wear the block. Taste the block. Be the block.

RonaldJosephCote

  You can be blocked for any number of reasons. Somebody didn't like your post in a thread 2 yrs ago.  Somebody mis-read your post from last month. Maybe they don't like who your friends with, etc,. I'll be honest, I've got about 25-30 people blocked, but the OP's not one of them. Chess.com does have a limit, you can only block about 200 members,  I think?

knighttour2

I understand that I can be blocked for any reason.  That's not my issue.  I'd like to know if I can see who's blocking me.  Mostly out of curiosity, but also because I've had some open seeks vanish when I click on them in Live Chess and I'm curious is those people are blocking me

RonaldJosephCote

Just go to THEIR homepage. Big green banner at the top says, "You are blocked from this member".

knighttour2

Yes, I've been told about that method, but I'm wondering if there's an easier way.  I know you can see a list of all the people you block.  I'm wondering if there's something like that in reverse.  For the question about the 960 seek that I referenced in the first post, I don't  remember the guy's exact username

RonaldJosephCote

Not that I know of.  Its possible somebody picked up the seek one sec sooner than you. There's a 960 group you can join.

knighttour2

Shame.  It would be nice to know.  Maybe a staff member or mod can weight in.  I suppose that they might avoid having such a feature because some of the crybabys on the site might throw tantrums if they find out they're being blocked.  happy.png

RonaldJosephCote

https://www.chess.com/club/chess960-players-group          I think its just a privacy issue. Your right, they won't get involved.

Ziryab
RonaldJosephCote wrote:

Chess.com does have a limit, you can only block about 200 members,  I think?

 

A limit? That's horrid. I guess I better go unblock those who have banned because my suspicions when I blocked them proved accurate.

RonaldJosephCote

I periodtically clean my list because in time some people close their account, or the site closes their accounts.

Luke713

What?

HessianWarrior
kaynight wrote:

If you cannot post in a thread, you have been blocked. Go onto the players page, and it will tell you if you are blocked. Wear the block with pride, my friend. Be careful out there.

I do kaynight, thanks for blocking me.

Ziryab

Sometimes you tell someone the truth, and they tell you that you've been blocked. For instance, a newb, who obviously has minimal tournament experience as a player and none as an arbiter, has sets out to rewrite FIDE Laws. I've been nice and tried to pose questions, but these went over his head. So, I called him on his inexperience. Now blocked!

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/repetition-of-position

ArgoNavis

I only know of a sane user who has blocked me, the rest were either snowflakes, idiots and/or attention-seekers.

 

If you're looking for an example of the second group, see below...He blocks anybody who doesn't agree with him, and he doesn't realize how ridiculous he is. Anyways, I should thank him for the block, as it has saved me crucial time. Now I can skip his threads, knowing that all he posts is plain and utter nonsense.

game_designer

Nice?

Really?

Just read the first sentence of his comment.

The word condescending springs to mind, then he wonders why he was blocked.

Not surprising that he said absolutely nothing about the mistake and the loophole in the FIDE Laws of Chess for this repetition of position rule.

Warlord

[Edit]

I blocked his buddy, see directly above, ages ago.

Ziryab
game_designer wrote:

 

The word condescending springs to mind, then he wonders why he was blocked.

 

 

I don't wonder at all. It was clear from your first two comments in the post that you didn't want input from anyone with knowledge and understanding of your topic.

I questioned your hostility to experts, but you missed the point.

 

The FIDE rules are fine as they are, at least on this point. The USCF rules, which have guided the more than 100 tournaments I've run also work just fine.

You clocked me when I identified myself as a tournament director.

It's clear that your grasp of the rules perceives problems because of your want of experience.

ArgoNavis
Ziryab wrote:
game_designer wrote:

 

The word condescending springs to mind, then he wonders why he was blocked.

 

 

I don't wonder at all. It was clear from your first two comments in the post that you didn't want input from anyone with knowledge and understanding of your topic.

I questioned your hostility to experts, but you missed the point.

 

He always misses the point. I'm trying to find one thread where he "explains" a game he has created (well, sort of, in fact he doesn't explain almost anything and posts stupid excuses about lawyers and blah blah). Half of the thread were his comments telling people they had been blocked.

Maybe the thread got deleted? It was wasted disk space in the end.

[EDIT] Nope, the thread's still here. In case you want to laugh at this disturbed guy.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-vs-intellectual-property-law

game_designer

You missed the point that I put the word in quotes, like this:

"Experts"

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