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Is Limiting Accounts a Good Idea?

Actually it's not true that FIDE titled players have to provide their real names to lichess. That would only happen, if they want their FIDE titles displayed in their profiles.

I don't agree about the part about identification.

If someone want to know his/her opponents in person, he/she could still join a local chess club.

The function mentioned in #5 should be sufficient.
What, my idea is the best idea, I'm leaving Lichess if it sin't implemented in the next 3 weeks!
There are alternatives to requiring an ID. Phone number verification is one. It's harder to get a new phone number than a new IP address and importantly it costs money.
Well my thoughts are that people post their real names on facebook to see, which I don't understand why. So why not on lichess. On lichess you could have the option to make your name public or keep it private.

I don't think limiting accounts by ip method works very well since a user can use a virtual private network. If lichess could limit the accounts created by blocking the virtual private network then I guess that alternative is better than having to provide id to create an account.

I'm not sure if phone number verification is a good idea since people could make multiple gmail phone numbers through google voice.

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