Next question: do you want to see your friends' accounts closed?
Do You Want to See Closed Accounts in Your Friends List?

In the immortal words of TDM......"
We have begun deleting spammy, counting, and otherwise empty "friends" accounts.
Good luck in the future with more substantial "friend" choices.
Why would you need to make a program to do that? If I don't want a closed account on my friends list, I can just use the "Remove Friend" option, right?

There are 25 million chess.com members, and there could be another 25 million closed accounts in the dark side.
Please do not wake up the Dead.
Rmove their names from the friendlist, search, forum posts and everything.

Why not a settings switch that individuals can control ?
1 year ago I would have said that same thing. But we have too many settings, it makes the site more and more and more complicated. We need to find the right way to simply and make it good for everyone.

The subject almost sounds like a threat. As in tell your friends to behave or else.
haha. I didn't think of that. I wish I had thought of it when I wrote the post.
Im excited to see that you an now block 500 people. And hopefully it does go to 1000