@HollyMu said in #15:
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@userfriendly2 :
> Look at Hans Mokke Niemand.
> No proof, just some "öhm" and "ähm" and a massiv wall.
> Ask yourself, is it good for chess when the things grow together and the money makers can do what ever they want?
> I hope this step will be good to Mr. Niemand and his complaint.
Yeah I know what you mean about blocking other top players out of tournaments etc etc but I dont cheat so it will never affect me. I'm more interested in how it could affect me and my friends. I couldn't give two fiddlers about the money involved and I'll never be anything close to a top player.
I want to know what people think could happen and how that will affect the lay person(the patzer if you will)
Ads a side note- I wonder if part of the agreement was to have Hans banned from the site as a self confessed cheater in the past. I know he had access restored but what if Magnus didnt agree with restoring his access. Aren't they allowed to change their minds? It's their site after all. Perhaps as ambassador for the site Magnus said I'm not playing here if you have someone who confessed to cheating here. Simple. They said OK and banned him. They have their proof for those instances and Hans confessed.
I believe in lifetime bans for cheating so I'm OK with that. What I'm not OK with is that he was banned, reinstated and then banned again. Handled poorly? Yes! Deserves to be banned based on proven past cheating? Absolutely.