Disabling chat box, automatically

Is there a way to disable all chat boxes from ever appearing when an online game begins?

I prefer to play in silence and it appears from reading the forums that closing the box once it has already appeared can be seen as hostile or rude to some people.

If there is a way for an individual player to disable this feature once and for all, for all games, before they even begin, that would be better than having to close it each time and hope you do so before your opponent starts or expects chatting.

Can this be done? how?

Thanks.

Hi welcome to the Chess.com, yes you can be able to disable the chat box by clicking the 'disable chat' on the top right hand of the game box.

Thanks for the welcome... and, oh, yes, I do see how to do it for each game. But I wondered if there was a universal 'no chat box' setting somewhere in our account settings (that I have not yet found) that would keep the boxes from ever appearing in future games in the first place.

I don't think there is a 'universal' one.

not every1 is rude.

out of like 400 games i played here, only 1 was rude

Still that person doesn't feel like talking to anyone while playing the games, fair enough.

Ah, thank you.

I suppose I can suggest such a feature to the support team. If there are enough others who feel the need for such a univeral function, that might come in the future then.

Can I ask you this, why you don't feel like talking to anyone while playing the games ? If you don't feel like chatting that is fine, all you had to do  just say "Hi" they might say "Hi, how are you ?" then you can say "I am good thanks, I just let know I don't feel like chatting really , thank you"  or reall you don't have to say anything really. Most of the times I say Hi and they Hi and that about it no problem.

Thanks for asking... well, there are several reasons... for my young neice, her parents require her to immediately close chat on any game site, as they do not allow chatting for her online.

For me, it is an issue of concentration... both here and on other sites, I have tried to leave it at a polite hi-hello-gg, but it never stays that way. 99% of the time, the person then starts to ask, why are you not chatting more. Or they complain that my answers are too short (in one instance, I was asked "where are you from?" - I said, "I live in xxx" --  10 mins later I was accused of being a b*tch for not telling more). And there have been many, many times when someone begins to lose that I begin to hear tales of why they are losing, why I must not be a woman because women cannot really play, why I must be cheating, how a family member is dead or dying and implying that a compassionate person would throw the game (this happened more on the ther site but has happened once here as well).

The chatting once begun rarely stops.

It is a distraction to an opponent, deliberate or not.

And -- no small reason, for me -- I prefer to see my game notation next to my game board, as it always is in real life. It helps me concentrate and visualise the moves in the game so far. It is very annoying and distraction to move from game to game and have to switch tabs every time a move is made and the screen refreshes.

Yep I see your points here as is happen to other females players. Yes I agree that there are some players are just simply rude, turn the chat box off, if is it bad report it at the bottom of the page 'Report Abuse.' Hope you will enjoy your stay here.

You have made me think of another solution -- if closing the chat box universally is not possible, would it not be a good idea to give each player the power to shift/re-order the chat-moves-details-notes tabs as they see fit?

Probably the prime reason for me closing the chat box would be beause it overrides my game notation box, and for those of a certain generation anyway, having your game notation ready and visible next to your game is a mental habit that is hard to break. I think if players were able to decide which of those boxes or screens sat first rank, there would be less reason to close the chat....

I for one could see myself saying, hi-hello-gg, then moving the game notation to the first rank and focusing on my game as I see fit without feeling that closing the box would insult anyone....

Possible?

Just open up the game notation window instead - beside the "messages" catergory on the box

Thanks. but it does not stay open. The moment you make a move or switch to a different game (at least on my account, tell me if there is a way to change this), the chat screen reverts to the top spot and I have to manually go to my notation screen after every move for every game... I think a function allowing each player to decide on a set position for their tabs, to personalise their game screen, would make a lot of people happy. More talkative types could prioritise the chat screen, contemplative types could permanently prioritise the notation screen, etc... that way everyone is happy.

You will have seen these other threads about chatting no doubt.

disabling-chat - especially Kohai's post #7

disabling-chat-ethics

sportsmanship - classic discussion on misinterpretation/misunderstanding

It would be worthwhile to make it absolutely explicit in your profile (e.g. using Extended Personal Profile), and in your status/location (e.g. using Essential Chess Type) that you are not going to be chatting.

Thank you, artfizz. No I had not seen those particular past discussions, thank you for the links. And those extended profile suggestions are quite something!.... for now, yes, my niece's parents have put a note on her about-me page that says 'we don't let our daughter chat online, so don't be offended' -- I've preferred a more subtle approach (?!) with my weekly rotation of quotations on how much I value silence... but those 'essential chess types' ideas are quite interesting.