Is it ok for some random person to send you messages and ask random irrelevant and private questions

@TheJeromeGambit said in #4:

@Mihir_katti of course not that would be really stupid
No, no. Whatever they say in the messages, do not respond. Just ignore the messages.

It's called harassment, report them.

@myoung11 said in #5:

I was messaged by them to, did they ask stuff like your age
same

@Santiagodm said in #13:

same
report them, it’s harassment as @Deadban said

@hwang89 said in #14:

report them, it’s harassment as @Deadban said
I deleted the chat

@Santiagodm said in #15:

I deleted the chat
I would ignore, delete then report the user to get him banned, because we can’t have things like this continuously happening.

@hwang89 said in #8:

If they’re doing that just reply with dumb answers. Like if they ask your age, reply ‘1000 or 42 million’. It will annoy them enough to make them go away.

My real age would work just as well.

@MrPushwood said in #17:

My real age would work just as well.

42 million?

@TheJeromeGambit said in #1:

I was just minding my business watching some YouTube and heard the lichess notification ping. Thought it was maybe a team message or a forum notification but some random person sent me some messages in broken english. I'm not going to say who it is and you know who you are. But is it ok for people to do this? I heard that this happened to people before but never to me.

It’s probably because you have an awesome name!

Whether it is ok or not really depends on the content of the message. If you allow DM's from strangers in your privacy settings, you kind of agree to being DM'ed by people you don't know. So unless the message is abusive, it is ok. If you do not want to receive unsolicited messages, just disable it in your profile settings.