Troll Management Feature

So you know the troll drill; if you win you're a cheater and profanities are coming your way and if you lose or blunder then taunting of all sort... It seems that it does not matter how many of these trolls I block they just keep coming non stop.

I would like to propose a feature that, when selected, all the trolls my friends block, I also block automatically. Since I trust my friends judgement, group of polite players would cooperate to help each other identify these individuals rapidly and their trolls career would be very short even if their accounts are not banned -which I understand since this is a free site and moderators might not cope checking all the reports.

It does not seem a complex feature to implement, and yet, I think it would have a very positive impact in the lichess community, helping making it grow larger and healthier. Think about it, a friend of yours joins the community, befriend you and he/she already might have several hundred trolls he/she does not have to cope with.

What do you think guys?

1. Enable kid mode.
2. Problem solved.

@savagechess2k I would like to believe that there are more options other than blocking every communication or being constantly abused by trolls.

If you follow 200 players and each of them has a block list of 100 players, then there are many large database queries which execute any time anyone attempts to interact with you.

@Toadofsky Well, I was thinking rather in having my list updated with theirs, this way any of us can decide at any point if we want to unblock one of the players from the list and the query will be limited to my account, there should not be any overhead.for the servers.

Also, it also means that I would be protected from 20,000 trolls in one stroke!

@Toadofsky Also, thank you for contributing to free projects like these. Kudos.

@templartux Thanks.

Let's suppose that 1,000 players follow a titled player. Any time their list updates, you suggest that 1,000 lists be updated?

@Toadofsky Well, there is no need to do an immediate update to all the lists if this causes any overhead to the servers, it could be scheduled once a week when the servers are less busy for example.

This means that if this titled player blocks five trolls in a week, by the end of the week we can update the 1,000 followers lists when the servers are less utilized.

Now these five trolls cannot abuse 1,000 people which, in turn, will be a great deterrence for future trolls who, even if their accounts are not banned, they will have a very small number of players willing to play with them.

@templartux the more friends you have, the less you can trust their collective judgement. So a more elaborate version of your idea could be «everyone who is blocked by more than 10% of my friends, is blocked by me also». The percentage could be configurable.

@Skeftomilos I think you raised a very good point, some people may want to be more certain about a player being a troll before he is automatically added to their block list.

Also we could offer the option to manually select whose block list among the players we follow we want to add to our own, the reason being that maybe we follow a player because his/her skills but perhaps not for his/her judgment on who is a troll.