There needs to be restrictions on new accounts

I am talking social wise and game wise. New Accounts should not be able to play straight of the bat. They should have at least 10-20 games played to even get paired with actual people. Also they should have at least 30-50 games played before they can access the social side. It's been a year to 2 years since ive been on this site and nothing has been changed regardng this issue. And one more thing, they should have at least 100 games played to access arena tournaments because a lot of people have complained about that. And if you are wondering the Verification thing chess.com has (where you have to verify using your email) does nothing to stop trolls and spammers.

Also criticism is allowed here. I love different opinions!

However many games you have to play to access rated games and forums and clubs, the same reoccurring trolls and cheaters will happily blitz through a few 1-minute bullet games to be able to come back.

A better solution would be to only allow one account per device. That way, if someone were banned for whatever reason, they'd have to create a support ticket in hopes of coming back. But there are still VPNs...

Basixally, there's nothing much chess.com can do, unfortunately. All you can do is report these users and hope that the staff is competent and bans or mutes the users accordingly.

Also if you upgrade, to diamond, platinum, or gold then you should be able to bypass a little of these restrictions.

Because you are spending actual money, meaning you wouldn't want to be banned.

I kinda agree kinda dont. If a troll is dedicated enough they will buy premium. I have seen it happen before

But its not being banned just restrictions

Yes, but maybe It would cut down on some of the trolls.

"basixally" this is "basixally" why we like basix so much

Basixally.

I agree with this

I played games and when I encountered cheaters with new accounts they wouldn't get banned which gets me flipping mad (not too mad) an example of when I played at June and encountered a cheater named [removed -- MS] the player was played stockfish style which got me furious I reported but nothing happened idk why new players are off the bat

I agree with the game wise part but, not so much with the social.

This mindset leads to people reporting the accounts less, and then the trolls harness that and trick you 😏🤦‍♂️

10-20 games played before playing with actual people? What a way to demotivate chess newbies. NGL, I never would have had the desire to continue playing more games if this had happened to me. I would have just said "eh, no fun" and quit. I wouldn't have discovered that I actually liked chess. And trolls will just resign all the games early and/or play bullet so that the limit is bypassed, so it wouldn't even be effective against trolls, just beginners. In fact it would just encourage them to quit a few games on move 5 or as soon as they're able to. Plus they can just avoid cheating during those first 10-20 games, and then start doing it as soon as they get paired with real people.

#13 has a point guys!

Chess.com staff got this under control. You could have posted this on feedback instead.

I don’t think restricting someone is the way to go, and to some degree, we the players can set said restriction when creating a daily game or even club match?

When it comes to tournaments then I would say a minimum amount of games played could be implemented, but even in titled Tuesday we see hardcore accounts get banned. Even players with games under their belt get banned for cheating. So as I mentioned, chess.com got this under control.

That’s actually not a bad idea but then again they can just intentionally loose the 20 preliminary games so it wouldn’t matter. there’s so many ways to get around being honest on this site. Ya Have to remember that 12k accounts are banned per month plus accounts trying to scam players out of actual money. It’s very rare you’ll get a resigned game. You have players getting weird gratification for manipulating new account ratings and match making to basically run through players and ruin their online experience intentionally like what you’re saying so….knowing all these things,online chess isn’t some gentleman game it shouldn’t be taken too seriously.

I agree Midnight!

Ban the IP address

My internet provider will by default change my ip address every 24 hours. I can change this in my settings in a web browser to an hour or days or weeks. But by default my provider will change it every 24 hours. So an ip ban is pointless. we live we also live in a time where vpn is highly promoted to the public. Many if not most uses a vpn or a proxy to mask their ip. Ip ban is therefore utterly pointless.

I agree with you midnight