Problems with blocked players - Why are they allowed to watch my games and write comments to me?

At the moment I am wondering about the Lichess given possibility, that blocked players can watch games after beeing blocked.

The blocked not only can watch the games, they are sooo clever, to go to analysis board, where they can write comments AFTER they have been blocked in chatfunction of watchers chat.

With this, I like to ask lichess to fix the error, that blocked people can continue to harass profiles in any way.

I really can not enjoy my evenings games, if for example 3 blocked guys, monitor my games with my training partners.

Not only I am annoyed by it, my partners too. Sometimes I meet new players, they not wanna play with me more times because of that ugly watchers. But nice and kind people should not leave because of blocked watchers, I think.

HELP!!!

What other female and male think about that, for me would be interesting.

if it's really abusive then report

When did lichess turn into tinder?

Interesting topic :) - i agreed to the terms that my games are going to be public, that somebody can analyze the style of my player. Blocked player only cannot write you a mesage or offer a fight but in the public space they can write and they should obey

"Obey!"

Its not tinder because there is only (in my opinion) 5% girls and 90% guys, and 5 % not oriented

@itz-aryan-gupta24 said in #3:

Strict actions should be taken by lichess , , its very important topic ,

you assume lichess does not?

and if no one reports it lichess can't smell it

@itz-aryan-gupta24 said in #3:

Strict actions should be taken by lichess , , its very important topic ,
@for_cryingout_loud said in #6:
you assume lichess does not?

and if no one reports it lichess can't smell it

I have reported three guys recently for various inappropriate behaviours including bullying, harassment, sending me sexually explicit dms, and stalking underaged female users. All three were banned, and throughout these unpleasant experiences, the Lichess moderator I spoke to was very responsive and supportive. Lichess acted quickly and dealt with the situations with sensitivity and I cannot praise them highly enough. As it has been said above, it needs to be reported in order for them to take action.

@QueenRosieMary said in #7:

I have reported three guys recently for various inappropriate behaviours including bullying, harassment, sending me sexually explicit dms, and stalking underaged female users. All three were banned, and throughout these unpleasant experiences, the Lichess moderator I spoke to was very responsive and supportive. Lichess acted quickly and dealt with the situations with sensitivity and I cannot praise them highly enough. As it has been said above, it needs to be reported in order for them to take action.

This is a very important thing, to report, yes ... this, my topic, is a little different from only the idea, to report. Maybe there is a missunderstanding.

I can say it again in other words:

I not wanna be watched by blocked persons and see in games, their names ... watching me. But more important for me is, that they can not send comments to me with using the analysis board chat function.

I think lichess can fix the problem in general, that blocked persons can reach the person who blocked. It is a script mistake of webside?

(By the way I was wondering, reported profiles, that requested sexual content, were only warned, not deleted by lichess. - This I know, because the reported asked me, if I was the one, reported them.)

There is an existing github issue about it : https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/issues/10078 , I crosslinked your forum post there.

@Sofia-Mary said in #8:

This is a very important thing, to report, yes ... this, my topic, is a little different from only the idea, to report. Maybe there is a missunderstanding.

I can say it again in other words:

I not wanna be watched by blocked persons and see in games, their names ... watching me. But more important for me is, that they can not send comments to me with using the analysis board chat function.

Sorry I know my comment was not about your specific issue, but it does relate in a more general sense to the wider issue of some male players harassing female players (most of them don't do this, as I always like to say before it turns into a different argument). I do understand your issue, your wording was fine.

I have also experienced this problem with three users whom I had blocked for various reasons (one was spamming me constantly, one was harassing me and bizarrely dm me during a classical game and offered to "help me win" which I found horrifying and blocked and reported him straight away, and one was asking me for money and my phone number if I recall correctly). Different people from the 3 previously mentioned. They were watching my games after I blocked them, and some comments were made in the game chat and also public arena chat to try to communicate with me, despite me saying clearly that I didn't want to talk to them.

In one case, the blocked individual taunted me in the public arena chat after an especially brutal defeat (they are rated 500 points higher than me so not unexpected). "Did you love that queen?" which maybe looks innocuous on the surface if you don't know the context. If a friend had said something similar to me in that situation I would not have minded at all, but then friends have roasting rights! I am considering not playing in these (variant) arenas anymore as you encounter the same players.

I think lichess can fix the problem in general, that blocked persons can reach the person who blocked. It is a script mistake of webside?

I don't know about this aspect of things but someone else may be able to answer this?

(By the way I was wondering, reported profiles, that requested sexual content, were only warned, not deleted by lichess. - This I know, because the reported asked me, if I was the one, reported them.)

In your case, I don't know, but obviously, that is not a welcome communication from them and I can see why you felt deeply uncomfortable about it. I have been asked the same question in a public arena chat and also in dm before I blocked them. In my case, the three guys I mentioned before got a communications ban, and shortly afterwards I noticed their accounts were closed (not sure whether by them or Lichess.) In two out of the three cases, they came back again with a new account and continued their behaviour, and those new accounts also got closed.

I don't know the answer to this problem, except to agree with @Cedur216 that if it is abusive you should report it. When users that you have blocked for whatever reason start watching your games, and commenting to you in your game spectator room and in arena chats, it certainly feels like stalking and is not pleasant. Wishing you all the best in getting this resolved so you feel safe xxx