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Honestly, the site should have clear and unambiguous policies. This is anything but. I don't really see any reason even to merely discourage multiple accounts. People who want to abuse the system aren…

I support this decision. Your rating is meant to represent your playing strength. If it's not doing that as accurately as it could, then it should be fixed. > Why it's 50 now and not 30 I don't know, …

Most websites don't really have legitimate reasons to allow people to have multiple accounts, but this one does. The "other websites do it" argument is irrelevant. Vempele raises a good point, though.…

I'm a bot author and I want to create a new bot account with the same e-mail address as my main lichess account. I am, after all, the author and operator of the bot, and I only use one e-mail address.…

@thibault The user registration page needs to be updated. It currently says, "Computers and computer-assisted players are not allowed to play. Please do not get assistance from chess engines, database…

@EvilChess, the "Lichess Bots are for" section of the blog posts lists several different things, only one of which (chess engines) fits what I would call a "bot". It looks to me like you are allowed t…

I agree that this feature would be useful. Sometimes I want to analyze what happens if one of the players plays any old move and I don't want to be distracted by the particular move chosen.

@dstark, @Patrizsche: can you guys provide an explanation for why my suggested ratings adjustment would take a long time to run? As I said in post #50, I'm not at all convinced it would.

Sorry, I'd missed post #43. Maybe I'm hopelessly naïve, but why does it take so long to process the results of 215 million games? (And that's assuming all games are rated and all of them are currently…

Think about it: every player's rating is simply a function of the list of game results. If the ratings database table were deleted, we could reconstruct it by simply "replaying" all rated games -- not…