Please Remove the 200 per 24hrs rule

@oscardurham People do this on Instagram as well. It is a common tactic for farming followers. It is a badge for them. They want to be able to say they are popular.

#10 thibault said not to ask it and he even explained why because they hope people will follow them back and be popular

#11 if nobody follows you back then what is the point or only 1-2 follow you out of 200 then there is no use for that and gaining followers is not so important than learning chess

Lichess is for playing/leaning chess. If you want followers use Instagram.
Lichess follow option is mainly to connect with your friends and spectate strong titled players.

Players like you'll follow 1000 players and then after getting about 10 follow backs, they'll UNFOLLOW them all.

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guess what I'll consider unfollowing someone if he spams tons of following notifications in my timeline

Maybe use that time playing chess instead of gaming the system?

@thibault #8
Yes, you are right.
So, it would be better if we could know who unfollows us? ~ That could prevent random following because in that case unfollowing would also be notified to the user.

For me this is a non-issue because I only follow people I know personally, or celebrities. Why do lichess even care about these people trying to inflate their follower list?

#19 I assume that it is a resource issue. I guess that each time someone follows or unfollows someone else, a number of follow-up operations need to take place. Those probably don't matter usually, but when it's one thousand a day for a single user, that probably amounts to a lot. Do you want lichess servers to spend a significant amount of time letting people play their silly follow-games or rather spend those resources on actual games of chess?