Shares Economy

The Shares Economy was an economic system started in the forums channel of CSC (Chess Simp Community). It was started by Emily through an idea she posted in the #shitty-server-suggestions channel of CSC. Originally, the economy would be joined by "upvoting" (emoji reacting with a brilliant) the #shitty-server-suggestions channel.

Unfortunately, the Shares Economy is now entirely defunct after the migration of most of its participants to CRC, and was attempted to be moved to CRC initially but was quickly killed by drama and lack of interest, although some did attempt multiple times later on to revive it. It was an incredibly large, social, and interesting project, but certain members of the CSC administration such as Chess Simp famously dislike it, associating it with controversy.

A now-outdated ruleset for the Shares Economy exists at this link.

Multiple revivals of the Shares Economy have been attempted throughout CRC's history, with one of them planning to use Kkbot to automate functions instead of relying on users manually doing it, but all of these revivals failed due to a lack of interest, community association of the economy with negative traits of its time, and difficulty with successfully implementing econ features into the bot. The Shards Economy ended up being the only successful successor of the Shares Economy, and was surprisingly active for a couple months before dying due to delayed updates and a general decline of interest. The original Shares Economy thread was reopened in January 2026 as a joke, and ended up being officially rebooted briefly in March 2026 with new CSC forums users (as well as Rick, King Blunderer, and SudokuFan) and was moderately active for a time with one or two shares minigames inspired by the Shares Games being played, but died again after a couple weeks.