I think that a lot of these ideas are good ones. However, I feel that one major problem remains. Unfortunately, there have been many users that have had their Chess.com accounts disabled in the past, often for trivial reasons. What is worse, it happens without warning, and is nearly irreversible. The "Think this is a mistake? Click here" Actually does NOTHING, and there are hardly any moderators with the ability to reinstate an account.
That is not the main problem I have though. I don't appreciate that when a member's account is disabled, any and all content they have created in the past instantly vanishes. After all the games that a member plays don't vanish, so why should their blog or member page? It would almost be like reading in a history encyclopaedia that 'this person has died dead, so we have removed his page from the book'. There have been several members in the past whose writing I have really enjoyed, but they are unfortunately gone for good.
Members like chessbibliophile, gonnosuke, perfectgent, gambitbuster, timeless_thoughts, gambitking, inuyasha2019, kinggreco, and davidegpc have all contributed lots of worthwhile content, both via blogs and forum posts.
Here is what I propose (aside from more leniency in terms of disabling accounts):
1. When an account is disabled, the content the user created stays, by default, and only 'offending' content is removed. Additionally, after a certain time period (a month would be plenty long enough), the account is re-enabled. After all, it's not like the user couldn't just a make a new account, so why not let him keep the same name?
2. If an account must remain disabled, at least archive the content connected with the account, so that it is possible to search for. Especially blogs with a lot of work put into them are important to keep stored for posterity.
3. At the very least, even if all content must be removed, as a last resort, notify the member, as a courtesy, so that he has a period of time in which to archive anything that he wants to save, so that he won't lose it in the future.
I am sure that this is the type of thing many want to say, but most are afraid to express, and I am just as sure that my plea will fall on death ears. Oh well, such is life.
King Greco
No, having an engine declare draws takes the decision out of the players' hands. That's a really bad idea and goes against the rules of chess.