Almost no one uses these shortcut pleasantries (hi! / gl / hf / u2) and if they do it is often ironic because really; what is pleasant about not even taking the time to write your own greeting and 'cya laters'.
Instead I propose we substitute them for helpful answers to the most common questions people ask, it would give every person the ability to be a helpful volunteer service agent to direct newbies around the website. These are my (tongue in cheek) suggestions below; please add your own in the comments.
Q1. Stop stalking me!
A1. If you click new opponent on someone else's game, you get them again, you have to create a new game with your own time controls.
Q2. lol I don’t know how to play.
A2. Your instruction manual - lichess . org / specific-variant
Q3. Plays repeat silly moves or leaves tab for long periods of time when in a forced checkmate sequence.
A3. Why not resign in this situation?
Q4. Takeback offer proposed.. (0.1 seconds later)... Draw offer proposed.
A4. Please don’t offer draw for sympathy or to try and trick me in my good willingness to give you a takeback.
Q5. hur hur hur it’s me again.
A5. Please don’t go away create another account after I blocked you to come back and harrass me or try to take points off me with a lower rating.
*** Forum Game ***
We all have lichess suggestions we think we have all the answers too, that we wish the programmers would just get on with creating; I propose we use this thread to blow off steam at the exasperating repeat experiences we have with some opponents.
How to play; use the format below:
Question: Example of repeat experience you had on lichess.
Answer: Solution to their problem.
Instead I propose we substitute them for helpful answers to the most common questions people ask, it would give every person the ability to be a helpful volunteer service agent to direct newbies around the website. These are my (tongue in cheek) suggestions below; please add your own in the comments.
Q1. Stop stalking me!
A1. If you click new opponent on someone else's game, you get them again, you have to create a new game with your own time controls.
Q2. lol I don’t know how to play.
A2. Your instruction manual - lichess . org / specific-variant
Q3. Plays repeat silly moves or leaves tab for long periods of time when in a forced checkmate sequence.
A3. Why not resign in this situation?
Q4. Takeback offer proposed.. (0.1 seconds later)... Draw offer proposed.
A4. Please don’t offer draw for sympathy or to try and trick me in my good willingness to give you a takeback.
Q5. hur hur hur it’s me again.
A5. Please don’t go away create another account after I blocked you to come back and harrass me or try to take points off me with a lower rating.
*** Forum Game ***
We all have lichess suggestions we think we have all the answers too, that we wish the programmers would just get on with creating; I propose we use this thread to blow off steam at the exasperating repeat experiences we have with some opponents.
How to play; use the format below:
Question: Example of repeat experience you had on lichess.
Answer: Solution to their problem.