IMPORTANT INFO FOR CHEATERS AND NEW INCOMERS
Those who got or might get labeled on Lichess as cheaters may certainly create another account with the same name, delete the labeled account and rejoin the SL Chess Comm. Before you do it, please, post in the forum your vision/explanation to other members of what happened to you from your perspective. It would be appreciated. // If this was in my power I would suspend all labeled cheaters from all SL tournaments for minimum half a year. This is how it is being done in sports. Sportsmen get disqualified from all competitions for years regardless where the doping was positive. Sometimes until the end of their careers. But we are not as serious as them, and I am not in a position of a "prosecutor". Those who got caught are welcome back with a new account, just put a number at the end "1", "2", "0" or an underline "_", or they may create an alt in SL for it with an entirely new name, to go on training and enjoying life, if they can. Cheers!
WHY ARE SL USERNAMES SO IMPORTANT?
1) It is for your own good: occupy your SL username on Lichess before somebody else did this for you attempting to fake you. 2) Can you imagine that the official FIDE profile of Magnus Carlsen would be depicted as "The troll from Norway"? (ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=1503014) No. So here it is also NO. 3) This Community stands for the best achievable standard of transparency. There may be many other standards between the best and the worst. Any of those would be not the concept of this Community. 4) In case you might get labeled as "cheater" it is your username that must care all the burden of shame and responsibility. It's not your SL given name that can be too easily changed, nor it's your beautiful RL passport name that nobody gives the heck about, as nobody is interested to see your passport. Your achievements on Lichess will represent primarily your avatar. Deal with it.
So here are the GUIDELINES for Lichess account names that are due for the SL Chess Comm. (FOR NEW INCOMERS IMPORTANT TO READ!!!):
1) Your Lichess account name must converge to your SL username as close as possible. 2) No new meaning must be added to your Lichess account name. 3) In case your SL username already exists on Lichess you may add a number or an underline symbol or create an alt in SL exclusively for Lichess! This is also totally okay. However if your main avatar is unknown your alt may not be younger than 6 months. 4) Because SL username can be sometimes quite extravagant and long, minor parts of it may be omitted in Lichess account name if only such omission does not distort more than 49% of your SL username. So if you are "Thetrollfrom Norway" then "Norway" may be omitted as it's a smaller part. But if you are "Mark28 Biedermann" you may not omit "Biedermann" as it's a bigger part. 5) Contact me in case of a doubt. 6) If your names deviate from one another I will write a notice above your Lichess profile with your true SL username. Those notices can be only seen by those whom I follow and who follow me on Lichess.
My following policy: a) I follow only members of this Community; b) I always follow those who regularly play rated games; c) I may have other reasons to follow someone, which are not important to mention here.
Cheers!
Those who got or might get labeled on Lichess as cheaters may certainly create another account with the same name, delete the labeled account and rejoin the SL Chess Comm. Before you do it, please, post in the forum your vision/explanation to other members of what happened to you from your perspective. It would be appreciated. // If this was in my power I would suspend all labeled cheaters from all SL tournaments for minimum half a year. This is how it is being done in sports. Sportsmen get disqualified from all competitions for years regardless where the doping was positive. Sometimes until the end of their careers. But we are not as serious as them, and I am not in a position of a "prosecutor". Those who got caught are welcome back with a new account, just put a number at the end "1", "2", "0" or an underline "_", or they may create an alt in SL for it with an entirely new name, to go on training and enjoying life, if they can. Cheers!
WHY ARE SL USERNAMES SO IMPORTANT?
1) It is for your own good: occupy your SL username on Lichess before somebody else did this for you attempting to fake you. 2) Can you imagine that the official FIDE profile of Magnus Carlsen would be depicted as "The troll from Norway"? (ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=1503014) No. So here it is also NO. 3) This Community stands for the best achievable standard of transparency. There may be many other standards between the best and the worst. Any of those would be not the concept of this Community. 4) In case you might get labeled as "cheater" it is your username that must care all the burden of shame and responsibility. It's not your SL given name that can be too easily changed, nor it's your beautiful RL passport name that nobody gives the heck about, as nobody is interested to see your passport. Your achievements on Lichess will represent primarily your avatar. Deal with it.
So here are the GUIDELINES for Lichess account names that are due for the SL Chess Comm. (FOR NEW INCOMERS IMPORTANT TO READ!!!):
1) Your Lichess account name must converge to your SL username as close as possible. 2) No new meaning must be added to your Lichess account name. 3) In case your SL username already exists on Lichess you may add a number or an underline symbol or create an alt in SL exclusively for Lichess! This is also totally okay. However if your main avatar is unknown your alt may not be younger than 6 months. 4) Because SL username can be sometimes quite extravagant and long, minor parts of it may be omitted in Lichess account name if only such omission does not distort more than 49% of your SL username. So if you are "Thetrollfrom Norway" then "Norway" may be omitted as it's a smaller part. But if you are "Mark28 Biedermann" you may not omit "Biedermann" as it's a bigger part. 5) Contact me in case of a doubt. 6) If your names deviate from one another I will write a notice above your Lichess profile with your true SL username. Those notices can be only seen by those whom I follow and who follow me on Lichess.
My following policy: a) I follow only members of this Community; b) I always follow those who regularly play rated games; c) I may have other reasons to follow someone, which are not important to mention here.
Cheers!