Remove off-topic posts from front page...
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yes, good idea :)
I"m assuming you are referring to:
where it says "Recent Forum Topics". For quite some time now we have already been filtering this list to not include off topic posts. If you see this, can you please screen shot it? Or msg me or contact us right away when u do see it so that we can see it while its occurring? thanks!
Hi...I would like to make a suggestion, and wanted to see what others thought. Right before I actually logged in today, I took a look at the front page of Chess.com and was a bit taken aback to see one of the posts shows there reading "WOULD YOU GET YOUR KIDS CIRCUMCISED?" -- so, after logging in, I went to the off-topic collection, and sure enough there it was (just wanted to make sure it wasn't in the wrong category -- read on, and you'll see why). If I am not mistaken, you have a feature in your "Recent Posts" list on the right-hand side of the "Forums" page that auto filter out off-topic posts (great idea!) -- perhaps you would want to do this as well for the front page? And yes, I know I know that for new people to see off-topic posts shows a free thinking community and how we can all share ideas, etc. etc. but if I was a brand-new person just finding this site for the first time, reading something like that might throw me off a bit ("you never get a second chance to make a first impression"). Besides, all the new users will find the off-topic forums once they join, and can freely express their non-chess ideas there. But, as for first looks on that front page, perhaps you want to keep it all chess? Thoughts?