I keep getting banned

Check your DM for some of the players I am referring to.
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One of the reasons for this is moderators don't give feedback. I and other players send requests and comments that are simple and either receive no feedback or "We are working on it" This makes it seem like they don't care and therefor rumors start easily.
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If assuming I was somehow the cause of what I am complaining about then give me the permissions to fix what I am complaining about. Then I would stop but since I am doing work gathering data on cheaters and reporting several sandbaggers a week. I have the right to voice my concern when my help is being ignored/downplayed.
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Nothing is wrong with telling mods they are doing good. I think this is by far the best site for playing chess in the world. I try to keep my comments to constructive criticism, but it is hard to hold back when I see people slacking over something I care about.

When people have this discourse regarding cheating, they'll claim that Lichess fails to ban x amount of cheaters, and then it turns out that they have reported nobody at all.

Sometimes they'll even say that they faced 20 cheaters that were confirmed and banned in the last 2 weeks, when the truth is actually 3 or 4.

Sometimes they'll launch false accusations that are obviously faulty.

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I know very little about sandbagging, but 2 of the 3 names you disclosed don't look like they're sandbagging at all, much less confirmed.

The one that is definitely suspicious, the one who confirmed their M.O. in the tournament from 2 hours ago...happened only 2 hours ago.

Give the admins some time.

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I don't know if they would prefer a PM to a forum post, but there is nothing wrong with diplomacy and tact. Keeping the Lichess admins comfortable with their work, is important. How we deal with them will make them more or less productive.

Accusing them of not caring, or refusing to investigate someone that confirmed a sandbagging MO only two hours ago, misses the mark.

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If what you're saying is true and it's routine that you're reporting people and being ignored, then take it to the PM and see what Lovlas or one of the others has to say about your concerns. Maybe there is a good reason? Maybe they're not prepared to set the line of "confirmed sandbagger/cheater" where you and I might?

Either way, it's a bad look to post publicly insinuating that they do a 'less-than' job.

They get enough of that from people who obviously don't care at all, much less that they should experience that kind of conduct from people that do purport to care.

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"Nothing is wrong with telling mods they are doing good. I think this is by far the best site for playing chess in the world. "

Just for curiosity sake, when was the last time you let them know?

"Thank - You - Lichess - Keep - Up - The - Hard - Work - It - Is - Much - Appreciated."

God, Onyx, you are one knight in golden armour. Can't the moderators defend themselves when accused wrongly?
But I think what you are doing is nice. Anyways ... I do not want to bother people, but sometimes I read things here that make me worry. For example: I hate if people give me extra time. Usually I resign after such behaviour. Could I lose my account for sandbagging by doing so?

That's a good point that maybe Lichess doesn't consider sandbagging at the same level I do. That they don't want to risk banning all the people I do. If that is the case then Lichess needs to revise their definition of sandbagging since it would currently promote players to just have lower ratings.

They should add a "Ban user from U1500 tournaments" Then they could cut down on sandbagging without taking away users ability's to play normal games and then they could save the actual banning for computer cheaters ad such. This would be like the preventing berserking in Uarenas that they already have added.

@Sybotes "Can't the moderators defend themselves when accused wrongly?

Yes, of course they can! ;-)

That said, as I explained, people are more productive when they feel that their work is being actively appreciated, and that absolute, right there, explains some of my posts, and the effects that they're designed to cause.

I know exactly how irritating and tiring it can be, to deal with a set of people that insist on treating your home like a public urinal.

I know the difference between a thankless effort and an appreciated effort and it is significant.

"...sometimes I read things here that make me worry..."

Yes. That's a big problem. We see it all the time. It's become so plentiful that even I, a simple bystander, have started trying to help clear the record wherever I can.

Players will jump on the forum, start telling all kinds of lies about what Lichess is and isn't doing, how they're so blatantly incompetent and don't understand what REAL cheaters and REAL sandbaggers look like, that they can't figure out the best ways to do anything, and that everyone reading should take the poster's word for whatever complaint is being posited, instead of considering that Lichess has made a science out of every feature/policy/rule that they have for this site.

So it's no doubt that you get nervous reading the slander of big mouth people with incontinence. According to the lies of liars, I'm about to get banned for some illogical reason any minute now, and those that should be banned are free to continue to cause problems.

In fact, even your post, right here, is making indirect implications of incompetence.

I see how careful Lichess is.
I see the amount of thought and concern and care that they put into everything that they do.
I assumed, since it's so obvious, that most other people, (chessplayers nonetheless), saw it also.

If people are gullible enough to believe what some self-centered blowhard comes to the forums to vent and lie about, instead of what Lichess Administration has shown and proven, then they deserve to be scared that they're about to be banned for nothing, and that cheaters and sandbaggers are rarely dealt with accordingly.

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@Bobkinkmen3 "Lichess needs to revise their definition of sandbagging..."

Where do you see criteria that the admins use to determine and distinguish the difference between sandbagging and legitimate happenstance?

"Artificially inflating or deflating your rating. This is where a User purposefully loses, or has arranged with an opponent to win. As a result, the User’s rating will artificially increase or decrease."

How to determine if a user is purposely deflating their rating, that's always the big question. I would consider it on purpose if you somehow win 10 games in a row in a tournament then exit the tournament and lose the next 10, assuming this pattern continues over several days. But, some people seem to think this is normal behavior.

One thing I don't know if you know is that a donor asked to donate money to lichess if they would host a Umarathon. The staff response was that they wouldn't because of the known problems with sandbagging. So Lichess knows this is a problem, it's not like I'm alone mentioning this.

PS One of the accounts I caught cheating yesterday and reported twice was banned this morning, so that's quite good work them banning the account on its 3rd day.