Fake photos on profiles

Chuduy I'm glad that's not you:)

The more I read, the less I understand. All this stuff sound a bit disturbing though.

That's OK I think everybody realises you are not really a stick figure.

I took the liberty to look a few things up for you:

No hard feelings: "If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something."

Silent enemy: an enemy (someone who feels hatred toward, intends injury, or opposes another) that does not openly express their feelings.

Warning: something that makes you understand there is a possible danger or problem, especially in the future.
Example: "You run the risk of..."

Threat: expression of intention to inflict evil, injury or damage.
Example: "...or else..."

Although they are easily mistaken for the other, a warning and a threat are not the same thing.

The purpose of a warning is to create awareness.
The purpose of a threat is to create fear.

What you interpret as a "threat" comes from someone who in your mind clearly cannot have anything but vile, cruel and self-serving intentions. If that idea resides in your mind, it really tells nothing about anyone else. It tells that your opinion about what this person utters is strongly influenced by your opinions about this person. In other words, your view is heavily biased by what you believe this person to be. You see this person as unjust, unfair, immoral and so on. So she utters something that if you really want could be seen as a threat, simply because there is no other possibility "because she is that kind of person". That again is only an idea in your mind and finds no supporting evidence in the kind of behaviour she has displayed over the years in groups, personal messages and vote chess.
It must be a threat. Inducing fear in other people must be her intention, because you consider her that kind of person. It is simply impossible and unthinkable that there might be any other intention.
Likewise you do not even take into consideration that this person may have an understandable reason for what she has done. You immediately depict her as "fake" and set the tone of having exposed her. I doubt that you even contacted her before creating this forum-thread, asking for any explanation before denouncing her.
Tell me, is a message containing "That is perfectly legit", "I won't blame you", "you will meet no hard feelings from me", "I am not opposing any decisions you're going to make" and "I wish you all the best" really looking like a threat to you?

She tried the same thing with me, Alex,  when I first opened this thread.  The whole gist of her message was to shift responsibility away from her own actions and blame me if she were "forced to leave the site".  When that did not work, she came back with the same nonsensical stalker story that Ladyofthe_Knight has mentioned above, which I think was intended to appeal to my sympathy while conveniently meaning she could not publicly disclose why she used those pics. 

I can understand your loyalty to your friend, but I wish you would take a big step back and look more clearly at this situation.  I do not believe she is worth your loyalty, and by defending a fake you are making a fool of yourself here. 

I might switch to fruit soon for my profile pic. Let me check out my fruit bowl, back in a sec................................................

All I have is an over ripe pear.

Mine is a must for a few days at least. I almost s*it on myself with the laugh when I saw it.

I thought it was an ABBA song.

Mmmm, just the thing to follow a hot potato.

If google translate is accurate, you may find some Spanish-speaking mod takes it down sooner than that. 

Don't take it to a personal level on me, guys. I deliberately ignored your calling me a "faithful mug", "hoodwinked", saying that some are "not worth my loyalty", making a psychological appeal that I would be "making a fool of myself" and the like. You have a fair point if you want to start a general discussion about using pictures of someone else on your avatar, but that gets obscured when you cast aspersions like this.

What you're basically saying about the reason she gave you is that you don't believe it. That says nothing about her, or the legitimacy of the reason itself. There is, in fact, no evidence supporting your claim that she is bullying people or that she has mean intentions. And from that message to Ladyofthe_Knight alone it can be concluded that she has no such intentions. It's blatantly obvious, unless you choose to believe otherwise.
Tell me, if you were given the opportunity to speak to people who have begun to hate you to try to convince them of your motives of doing something, and you know very well in advance that those people have no intention whatsoever to listen to or believe one word of what you say in the first place, would it actually make sense to do so?

By the way, do you really believe she got the admin positions she has, just because of her avatar? Or did she get those admin positions (maybe, just maybe), because she earned them because of her competence and her contributions to those groups?

At least mum won't suffer at home!

Also, why keep insinuating that she is cheating in her games? If you believe she cheats, report to chess.com. They have a very good cheat detection system and many cheaters get banned with 1-2 days after being reported. If you do not believe she cheats, why keep stating, insinuating and implying that she does?

All right, Alex I'll stop calling you nasty names, even if you will persist in trying to live down to them.  

You are right that I don't believe the reason that was given, and since she has been proven to be a fake I think that the burden of proof lies with her.  She is clearly someone who cares very much about her public image on this site, even to the point of passing off someone else's as her own.  She has always been ready to answer her critics in her own blogs, but this time it is different; she has been caught in a lie, and knows full well she will not be able to talk her way out of it on a public forum.  

Since she has decided not to appear here in person, and you have come forward in her absence as her defence, why don't you or Joakim explain to us why your friend thought it necessary to pass off someone else's pictures as her own?  Not just for a few days or weeks, but for over a year?  And to never correct anyone who assumed it was her?  And to even complain in the forums about all the unwanted attention those fake pictures were bringing her?  

I hear that you, Alex, have met this member  in person.  If that is true then you knew those pictures were fake.  And that makes you complicit in this deception.  

Here's a suggestion.  Why not contact Ms De Haan, the real woman in those pictures, and explain to her how a friend of yours has been fraudulently passing them off as her own on a chess site.  What do you imagine her reaction will be?  Amused, uncaring, or annoyed by this deception?  I would not be surprised if she contacted the site and demanded that member's account gets closed. 

Do let us know how you get on. 

Do you stand by your accusations that you believe she has cheated in her games here?

Good idea, Joakim.  I have forwarded a game in which she appears to play "perfect" moves on to chess.com support, using the link you helpfully provided.  I am no expert in detecting cheats, so I leave it in the hands of the site. 

Do you stand by your accusation that she "took advantage" of people and is a “troll” and a "con-artist"? Do you have any examples of her using rude language, calling people names, making unsolicited sexual advances, racial slurs, insults or being inappropriate to minors, etc? Coning men to pay for services and send her gifts or money? Or perhaps just some example of being argumentative, disruptive or rude in forums, blogs, notes or PMs?

The only thing I have said is that she is a fake, and that is demonstrably true.  I have made none of the allegations that you state here, so why do you mention them?  Is it because your other efforts to silence this thread have failed, and you are now getting desperate?