Lichess shadow ban - no warnings

Since this continually seems to be lost on so many.  It is an internet site.  They can do what they want.  They do not need to give you a reason.  The only "right" or more precisely "privilege" you have is to be able to go to the site.

I haven't read the thread but in general, my thoughts on censorship today are as follows: Just because someone maybe shouldn't have said something, or it's offensive, doesn't mean something has to be *done* about it immediately. There's nothing wrong with having a discussion with the offending party. Online and off today, every time someone's offended in the slightest they want some kind of action taken against the offending party when very often, what's dealt out winds up being overly heavy handed and nonsensical. 

CM Sargon appears to be a bit of a sadist to be honest.

He seems to enjoy handing out shadow bans, then boasting about it, and saying nasty things about the people he has done it to when he knows they cannot reply.

He also seems to revel in the shadow banned persons concern that when  their friends message them, they reply, but their friends cannot read their replies.

I don't think it is appropriate to do that, its just cruel. and in his hands just a kind of mental torture tool, which he enjoys watching.

Someone I know quite well through chess club had his account closed about a year ago. He still maintains that he did not cheat and yet game after game his analysis showed him playing at a level any titled player would be proud of. He is an average club player ECF rating of around 1450 which clearly does not tally with 20 or so games that he played on here before his account was closed. He appealed it was rejected. I believe those who cheat on every game get caught.

Ok its very simple, you quote one of Lichess's ( alleged ) principles, that is "equal access to all feature for all members"

You then point out that is no longer the case.

You prove that, then you get banned.

The issue was simuls which due to changes are not now equally available to all lichess members.

So you make new identity and do the same again, but this time with a different example of why this is not the case.

No rudeness, just pointing out that it is no longer equal for all

You then get called an "obnoxious troll ",by the man himself, you then put in a report about that, and guess what ?

Instead of acknowledging there was no reason at all for calling me that...I get banned again.

One rule for one, one for another, just like Mister Boris Johnson and his friends it seems

So identity three was not meant to be so patient, or polite, and she wasn't

That ban was fully justified lol, but it was fun

Lichess used to have some advantages over chess.com, in my view it now has none, and chess,com has overtaken it  by a long way.

Yes, my thoughts exactly, that loser who runs the site, sitting in his moms basement banning people for fun....so sad......one of these "picked last in gym class" kind of peasants haha

why would people chose LC ? i mean what's good is in it ? how is it better than chess.com ?

for me the matches are more consistently competitive and they take cheating more seriously.   The puzzles are also free and have more of a random variety.  The game analysis is also simpler and more intuitive.

They get away with this behaviour because they run a free site, but it is bad customer service and one reason I dont play on there much. unfort. for you 

 1 or 2 of their mods have extremely small wangs and need to lord their power

over someone

later dudes

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