Answers.Body: <p>The two main reasons:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Lichess detected that the player was very likely cheating.</p></li>
  <li><p>The player used profanity or broke some rule of conduct.</p></li>
  </ul>
  
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Answers.Text: Profanity is a fairly rare reason for banning.
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Answers.Body: <p>First of all, lichess rarely <em>bans</em> players. What they usually do is flag their profile (usually for using chess computer assistance), remove their rating, and prevent them from p laying in tournaments and/or rating games. This is not a full ban.</p>
  
  <p>To answer your question:</p>
  
  <p>Lichess flags players for a variety of reasons, but (as mentioned above) they usually flag players for using chess computer assistance. They may also be flagged for sandbagging - artificially increasing or decreasing their rating.</p>
  
  <p>If you want to know why are particular player was flagged, check their profile. There should be a large red banner informing you what has happened.</p>
  
  <p>If you are wondering how the process of reporting/flagging players works, that would be a separate question.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Few days ago I was watching a game review on lichess and found out one of the player's account was banned. Any idea why lichess does that?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Hi, and welcome to Chess SE! Could you please provide more information on the game and the players? A link to both the game and lichess' policy would be very useful in this context.
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Tags: <lichess>
Title: Why does lichess ban players?
ThreadText: # Why does lichess ban players?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-01-29)
  
  Few days ago I was watching a game review on lichess and found out one of the player's account was banned. Any idea why lichess does that?
  
  **Tags:** lichess
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Hi, and welcome to Chess SE! Could you please provide more information on the game and the players? A link to both the game and lichess' policy would be very useful in this context.  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_3 on 2019-01-29. Score: 11 | Accepted answer
  
  First of all, lichess rarely *bans* players. What they usually do is flag their profile (usually for using chess computer assistance), remove their rating, and prevent them from p laying in tournaments and/or rating games. This is not a full ban.
  
  To answer your question:
  
  Lichess flags players for a variety of reasons, but (as mentioned above) they usually flag players for using chess computer assistance. They may also be flagged for sandbagging - artificially increasing or decreasing their rating.
  
  If you want to know why are particular player was flagged, check their profile. There should be a large red banner informing you what has happened.
  
  If you are wondering how the process of reporting/flagging players works, that would be a separate question.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2019-01-29. Score: 6
  
  The two main reasons:
  
  * Lichess detected that the player was very likely cheating.
  * The player used profanity or broke some rule of conduct.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: Profanity is a fairly rare reason for banning.  
  
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