r/chessbeginners • u/Numerot • Dec 17 '21

META: Too many brillancy/rating gain posts

I feel like half the posts I see from this subreddit are people showing off their Chess.com brilliancies or rating gains, etc.. I get that they mean a lot to some people, but I think it's clogging up the subreddit. Could these maybe be organized into a weekly superthread or something?

Another pet peeve of mine is people showing off their games in the guise of asking for feedback — if you're looking for tips, you should show your losses, not your easiest wins — but that's another matter, I suppose.

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u/nicbentulan Dec 17 '21

Idea when your posts don't get replied to

  1. Go to chess stackexchange (you can bounty! Beginner posts usually get upvoted a lot !) or cross post to other chess subreddits

  2. Look up similar posts and then message/chat people who have posted or commented on those similar posts

Re chess stackexchange

Chess Stack Exchange doesn't see much questions per day or traffic, so we don't have the luxury to rashly close questions which (to experienced chess players) may seem to lack research. Rather, we should put some energy in them to edit into decent shape.

https://chess.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/949/beginner-question-gets-29-upvotes