Long playing players privilege

@NaturalBornTraveller said in #18:
> I think #12 ment verified accounts for none masters.
> Not by giving them a title, but as an indication that these users identity, has been verified by Lichess.
> Even if their identity isn't publicly displayed.

Oh, you mean like Twitter verified accounts?

@Toadofsky said in #21:
> Oh, you mean like Twitter verified accounts?
I was just explaining my interpretation of #12.
But not. I ment Lichess verified accounts.
Can't say specifically for #12.

But surely can do better than Twitter!
There are different ways to do so.
They already verify chess masters. And surely forum moderators are verified in some form as well.

However they could also use social media verification? Maybe even make donation a requirement for verification?
Some people might find that genuinely enough for their needs? Whatever they may be.
I don't use social media myself. And I really have no opinion on this. (Neither for or against, my opinion depends on Lichess's potential implications)

However I disliked how Lichess originally pinged their new Twitter account, to the top of the forum thread.
I understand they wanted (need) publicity, but they were simultaneously promoting Twitter to an international audience. (A platform mostly catering to Americans, and a type of platform, which, even before current events, I don't like)

Maybe not intentionally, but this was subsequently an advertisement more for Twitter than for Lichess.
They didn't mention other social networks, that are similar. They just said, Lichess now has a Twitter account. Is it to hard to copy/paste Twitter messages into other social platforms?

I am European, and I am curious... What the f*** is Mastodon and Twitter?
Even to this day, Lichess still at the bottom of their front page, have those two sites listed there.
Where is Facebook (I don't have Facebook either, but I know of it, and I don't see so much difference from Facebook)
Where is Instagram? (I know the name, but I don't what it is, to my knowledge it is similar Twitter)
Where is Chinese WeChat?
Etc etc.

@NaturalBornTraveller said in #22:
> I am European, and I am curious... What the f*** is Mastodon and Twitter?

Bryan Lunduke recorded a podcast about Mastodon:
lunduke.substack.com/p/pondering-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse#details

The OP is right, that people with a long history on the site, are less likely to misbehave in the future.

The solution which will be implemented in a 3-5 year timeline, is a reputation system which will be saved in the blockchain to be absolutely secure. This reputation system, will be used in every chess web site, along with every other site on the internet like Uber, Airbnb etc. The reputation system, will most likely start from the outside world, from the people we know personally, and this social graph will be integrated with another social graph, to the people we know in the virtual world. That means that the stronger nodes in every social graph, are to be trusted more.

This will be the basis for the next million governments which will arise in the world. Balaji Srinivasan calls this "The Network State".

Or just keep implementing the current system in place.

Old or New accounts who behaves = no ban
Old or New accounts who cheats = ban
You got cheated = you get rating refund
If you hate how the current system works = play somewhere else.

How about something different like sorting the user names by color.
Friends list in Green;
Player you think are toxic in Red.

Nobody sees the colors but your self.
All saved as maybe cookies on your own computer.

If while you play a player in a tournament, you feel they did something toxic, you would right click the user name and select a color and the name would then be displayed in that color.

Maybe a programmer can make a java script with it's manifest to color code the names as needed.
The users interested for a java script like that would then need to inject the code to use it.

I'm going to state something no one has ever said before, and that is that any rating system considers not player well-standing, but player strength. All player ratings stop making sense if you choose a specific zone of players who you are playing against, that is, if you only play against players who have been on the site for >6 months, then no one should treat your rating seriously because you're not interacting with the active players pool who have been around for <6 months. It is going to be skewed.

That said, you're always welcome to not play ranked and only casual games against a specific club of people. In fact I'm pretty sure most players who wants only serious games does it. Find the people who you feel can give you a good game and connect with them.

@InkyDarkBird said in #2:
> lichess.org/report exists.
> Also why should older Lichess players deserve more benefits than newer Lichess players? Anyone can turn to cheating anytime they want.
but say you played 40,000 games and have your acc closed, that would hurt

@TheDiamondTiger said in #28:
> but say you played 40,000 games and have your acc closed, that would hurt
If there is a fair and proper reason as to why an account is closed, then that is fine with me.

@InkyDarkBird said in #29:
> If there is a fair and proper reason as to why an account is closed, then that is fine with me.
ya but why would you cheat and get a active acc closed