How lichess is treating Deceased person's account? Should not it be deleted? What is the formal procedure to delete account of deceased person?
Account should not be deleted
It depends on their religion
How will they know?
how do you tell if they are ded
I don't think there is any solid method to tell if the owner of the account is deceased or not, but usernames of inactive accounts- ones that have not been active for longer than 6 months & those of closed accounts should be purged for the sake of freeing up good usernames.
I think the issue is not so simple and, given the growing relevance of digital content in one's life, an online account of any sort should be treated like any other actual good.
I think the platform should be notified about the death of the account's owner from a next of kin, who should also decide wether to remove the account or let it stay (let's say I'm the son of a deceased lichess player, I would never want my parent's games forever lost).
I think the platform should be notified about the death of the account's owner from a next of kin, who should also decide wether to remove the account or let it stay (let's say I'm the son of a deceased lichess player, I would never want my parent's games forever lost).
Currently the preferred procedure is to write an e-mail to contact@lichess.org
@M-9213 said in #6:
> I don't think there is any solid method to tell if the owner of the account is deceased or not, but usernames of inactive accounts- ones that have not been active for longer than 6 months & those of closed accounts should be purged for the sake of freeing up good usernames.
Not a good idea. For one, there is no real need to free up usernames; if the username you want isn't available, you just choose a different one; it's not a big deal. Moreover, if I've played 10 games with JohnQPawngrabber already and six months from now JohnQPawngrabber is a different person, how will I know that when looking through my old games and how will that affect the crosstable, etc.? Reusing usernames is fraught with those kind of problems. Perhaps lichess could implement a "display name" which was linked to a username but wasn't used as an account identifier and could therefore be changed... but that would likely cause confusion in other contexts and it doesn't seem it would be worth the hassle.
> I don't think there is any solid method to tell if the owner of the account is deceased or not, but usernames of inactive accounts- ones that have not been active for longer than 6 months & those of closed accounts should be purged for the sake of freeing up good usernames.
Not a good idea. For one, there is no real need to free up usernames; if the username you want isn't available, you just choose a different one; it's not a big deal. Moreover, if I've played 10 games with JohnQPawngrabber already and six months from now JohnQPawngrabber is a different person, how will I know that when looking through my old games and how will that affect the crosstable, etc.? Reusing usernames is fraught with those kind of problems. Perhaps lichess could implement a "display name" which was linked to a username but wasn't used as an account identifier and could therefore be changed... but that would likely cause confusion in other contexts and it doesn't seem it would be worth the hassle.
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