@Cedur216 said in #21:
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> He doesn't deny that he boosted. He knows how he did that, and never did it again. He wants a new chance as he admits the wrongdoings, and that's his good right.
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> He probably deserved some kind of sanction back then, but does he deserve it *permanently*? It was for three-check, and he played lots of three-check games since. If his boosted rating were unrightful, it should have lowered again, but as he stabilized this rating with plenty more games, it's definitely rightful by now.
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> It doesn't matter that he only plays hyper for variants, as long as rated hyper variants exists - a good share of the leaderboard is hyperfarmers!
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> and last, is it really fair that boosting in *one* category or variant gets you banned not only from *one* leaderboard but from *ALL*?
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> Apparently the problem is that Fritzi thought the rankban would eventually lift itself automatically, as the information message implicitely suggested - if you're not very familiar with Lichess' moderation and appeal policy, it's easy to interpret this way ...
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@Fritzi_2003 did you file an actual appeal in the meantime? You don't need 1000 characters - just a brief statement that you know what was wrong, that your ratings can be considered rightful and that it won't happen again the way you want to play variants.
Wrong.
To me, boosting is either farming 1500? players or playing accounts that lose on purpose against you (your own/friends (2.) accounts) or even when you paid for that.
Neither of this happened. I mainly got challenged personally by these accounts, sometimes I accepted challenge of them in the lobby.
I don't want or need a "new chance" myself. To me, standing in the leaderboard isn't worth anything. Why should it, it's temporary. I just didn't see a reason for me not standing there looking at what kind of accounts are on the leaderboard. The main idea for the appeal wasn't that I can have these trophies on my profile, like I wrote on the blog post.
Yes. Even #14 is clearly sarcasm, I don't want to be good at variants. I started playing variants to get rid of playing theory lines up and down. The problem is that variants got exactly like that (or even more than standard chess, as I wrote in the blog).
No, I believe you should get banned for every category when (after lichess) you did wrong in one. As I believe, it wasn't 3Check alone that I got rank banned for, just like the extreme example. Even I don't think I ever did something wrong there myself, if lichess thinks so, they can ban me like they want (but also have to take the consequences).
I knew back then that you can apply for getting banned for cheating, but not for rank bans. Maybe I'm wrong and this was also possible back in 2021, but I first discovered it in late 2022. Yes, I kind of thought that back in 2021 for the first 3 months, but why should this be a problem?
In my opinion, this blog was a good chance to address some problems with ratings and leaderboards, sadly it turned the other way. But it also not my task to change them ...