Account closure- Different symbols and their meanings

nimzomalaysian · 2017-05-02T15:46:32-07:00

During my stay here in Chess.com, I've come across many closed accounts. I've noticed that all these accounts don't have the same symbol next to them. Actually there are 3 different symbols that are used to represent closed accounts, shown below.

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MGleason

Apr 21, 2025

#61

HyruleHopeLight wrote:

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Second one the hashtag red "banned" symbol means your account is banned for cheating, or violating the fair play policy, which is a completely different policy from the Community policy.

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Note that this is also used, rather confusingly, when an account is closed with no reason specified. This affects ALL non-fair-play closures from v2, which was the old version of the site from several years ago.