I personally don't think that Lichess should give the option to write any USCF rating you want. Please remember, that this is my opinion and not everyone may agree with it. Now, the reason I say this is because there are young children on Lichess, and say they check your profile in the middle of a match, and see you have the USCF rating of say, 2150. That might make them less confident about what the play, which might cause them to make a lot more mistakes in game than they usually would. Like just 5 minutes ago I changed my USCF rating to 2400. And if a player has a 2300 rapid or blitz rating, then it might actually seem believable that they have a 2400 USCF rating, even if they don't.
@SkyFire3675 said in #1:
> Please remember, that this is my opinion and not everyone may agree with it.
Oh thank God! (I thought I was gonna get stuck).
> Please remember, that this is my opinion and not everyone may agree with it.
Oh thank God! (I thought I was gonna get stuck).
@SkyFire3675 said in #1:
> I personally don't think that Lichess should give the option to write any USCF rating you want. Please remember, that this is my opinion and not everyone may agree with it. Now, the reason I say this is because there are young children on Lichess, and say they check your profile in the middle of a match, and see you have the USCF rating of say, 2150. That might make them less confident about what the play, which might cause them to make a lot more mistakes in game than they usually would. Like just 5 minutes ago I changed my USCF rating to 2400. And if a player has a 2300 rapid or blitz rating, then it might actually seem believable that they have a 2400 USCF rating, even if they don't.
Then the young children should enable Zen mode :)
> I personally don't think that Lichess should give the option to write any USCF rating you want. Please remember, that this is my opinion and not everyone may agree with it. Now, the reason I say this is because there are young children on Lichess, and say they check your profile in the middle of a match, and see you have the USCF rating of say, 2150. That might make them less confident about what the play, which might cause them to make a lot more mistakes in game than they usually would. Like just 5 minutes ago I changed my USCF rating to 2400. And if a player has a 2300 rapid or blitz rating, then it might actually seem believable that they have a 2400 USCF rating, even if they don't.
Then the young children should enable Zen mode :)
@jns0808 said in #3:
> Then the young children should enable Zen mode :)
They possibly might not know what Zen mode is or what it does.
> Then the young children should enable Zen mode :)
They possibly might not know what Zen mode is or what it does.
@SkyFire3675 said in #1:
> I personally don't think that Lichess should give the option to write any USCF rating you want. Please remember, that this is my opinion and not everyone may agree with it. Now, the reason I say this is because there are young children on Lichess, and say they check your profile in the middle of a match, and see you have the USCF rating of say, 2150. That might make them less confident about what the play, which might cause them to make a lot more mistakes in game than they usually would. Like just 5 minutes ago I changed my USCF rating to 2400. And if a player has a 2300 rapid or blitz rating, then it might actually seem believable that they have a 2400 USCF rating, even if they don't.
Funny how you all mention USCF but not FIDE which is used and filled out in the majority of cases.
Most of the times it's easy to tell if a profile rating is meant seriously or not.
> I personally don't think that Lichess should give the option to write any USCF rating you want. Please remember, that this is my opinion and not everyone may agree with it. Now, the reason I say this is because there are young children on Lichess, and say they check your profile in the middle of a match, and see you have the USCF rating of say, 2150. That might make them less confident about what the play, which might cause them to make a lot more mistakes in game than they usually would. Like just 5 minutes ago I changed my USCF rating to 2400. And if a player has a 2300 rapid or blitz rating, then it might actually seem believable that they have a 2400 USCF rating, even if they don't.
Funny how you all mention USCF but not FIDE which is used and filled out in the majority of cases.
Most of the times it's easy to tell if a profile rating is meant seriously or not.
Because it would cost lichess a great deal of time and effort verifying every profile.
In other words, your do-gooder, self righteous, babysitting proposal creates more regulatory problems for companies. It would force them to hire additional employees with money they don't have, tying up man hours and resources into trivial things, or they would have to remove the option entirely.
Children don't need you to remove every imaginable emotional distress. The last thing humanity needs is a bunch of silver spooned babies who cannot do anything for themselves. Children, especially those intelligent enough to be good at chess, can learn pretty quickly which profiles are accurate and which aren't based on your level of play. They certainly don't need you to determine that for them.
In other words, your do-gooder, self righteous, babysitting proposal creates more regulatory problems for companies. It would force them to hire additional employees with money they don't have, tying up man hours and resources into trivial things, or they would have to remove the option entirely.
Children don't need you to remove every imaginable emotional distress. The last thing humanity needs is a bunch of silver spooned babies who cannot do anything for themselves. Children, especially those intelligent enough to be good at chess, can learn pretty quickly which profiles are accurate and which aren't based on your level of play. They certainly don't need you to determine that for them.
@SkyFire3675 said in #1:
>... say they check your profile in the middle of a match, and see you have the USCF rating of say, 2150. That might make them less confident about what the play,
Or it might make them very happy and very confident, if they are in a good position. ;-)
Also, there is the lichess rating to estimate your opponents strength.
I don't see how and why you would want to link (anonymous) profiles here to a huge amont of country specific chess organisations and probably reduce the number of peope giving thei national numbers due to loss of anonymity.
>... say they check your profile in the middle of a match, and see you have the USCF rating of say, 2150. That might make them less confident about what the play,
Or it might make them very happy and very confident, if they are in a good position. ;-)
Also, there is the lichess rating to estimate your opponents strength.
I don't see how and why you would want to link (anonymous) profiles here to a huge amont of country specific chess organisations and probably reduce the number of peope giving thei national numbers due to loss of anonymity.
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