@Rider_of_Theli said in #10:
> The only point to be spectating instead of analyzing post-mortem is to comment in real time
Definitely not. If that were the case, why would there be the "Lichess TV", for example? It's quite common to spectate games of your frieds, other games in a tournament you are playing, your teammates in 4545 League etc.
> comment in real time ,which is something we could call "mild cheating" but still unfair for the player that is not being coached or receiving commentary
Commenting in real time is perfectly fine, I do it quite often. As the players don't see spectator chat until the game is finished, it has nothing to do with fair play violation. If they are using some other channel than spectator chat or if an active player works around the limitation to visit the game chat, it would violate a fair play but obviously you don't really need to watch the game on lichess for this kind of cheating.
In other words, disabling the possibility to spectate live games would not prevent the kind of fair play violations you are afraid of but would prevent other, perfectly legitimate, use cases.
> The only point to be spectating instead of analyzing post-mortem is to comment in real time
Definitely not. If that were the case, why would there be the "Lichess TV", for example? It's quite common to spectate games of your frieds, other games in a tournament you are playing, your teammates in 4545 League etc.
> comment in real time ,which is something we could call "mild cheating" but still unfair for the player that is not being coached or receiving commentary
Commenting in real time is perfectly fine, I do it quite often. As the players don't see spectator chat until the game is finished, it has nothing to do with fair play violation. If they are using some other channel than spectator chat or if an active player works around the limitation to visit the game chat, it would violate a fair play but obviously you don't really need to watch the game on lichess for this kind of cheating.
In other words, disabling the possibility to spectate live games would not prevent the kind of fair play violations you are afraid of but would prevent other, perfectly legitimate, use cases.