p("You may send us an appeal, and a moderator will review it as soon as possible."),
p(strong("What should I write in my appeal?")),
p("Be honest and tell us the truth."),
p(
"Include everything that you think matters for your case. Only send your appeal once, and don't send any additional messages if they don't add anything important to your appeal. Sending additional messages will not get your appeal dealt with any sooner."
),
p(
"It is important to be honest from the start. If at first you deny doing anything wrong, we'll treat your appeal accordingly, and we will simply disregard any changes in your position. In other words, don't try to deny things at first only to confess to something later on."
),
p(
"Note that if your appeal is denied, you are not permitted to open additional accounts on Lichess."
"We define this as using any external assistance to strengthen your knowledge and, or, calculation ability to gain an unfair advantage over your opponent. Some examples would include computer engine assistance, opening books (except for correspondence games), endgame tablebases, and asking another player for help, although these aren’t the only things we would consider cheating."
valaccept="I accept that I manipulated my rating."
valacceptFull=
"I accept that I deliberately manipulated my rating by losing games on purpose, or by playing another account that was deliberately losing games. I am sorry and I would like another chance."
valdeny=
"I deny having manipulated my rating."
valdenyFull=
"I deny having manipulated my rating. I have never lost rated games on purpose, or played several games with someone who does."
Branch(
"root",
"Your account is marked for rating manipulation.",
"We define this as deliberately manipulating rating by losing games on purpose, or by playing against another account that is deliberately losing games."
"We understand your frustration, but temporary play bans for aborting too many games are necessary. It's very annoying for your opponent when the game gets aborted and we have to discourage it."
),
p("A few things we can suggest are:"),
ul(
li("Don't send a challenge if you don't want to play and then abort the game."),
li(
"If you don't want to face lower or higher rated opponents, set a rating range on your seek."
),
li(
"Don't abort games if you want to have a particular color, you have to play with both colors."
)
)
)
),
Leaf(
"playban-timeout",
"For letting my game clock time run out.",
p(
"We understand your frustration, but temporary play bans for stalling in games are necessary, it can be very frustrating for opponents to waste time in lost positions before resigning."
)
),
Leaf(
"playban-disconnect",
"For frequently disconnecting from games.",
frag(
p(
"We understand your frustration, but temporary play bans for losing connection are necessary, even if you don't disconnect on purpose. It's very annoying to suddenly lose your opponent during a game and we have to discourage it."
),
p(
"The only thing we can suggest to you is that you try to get a better connection or play longer time-control games that are more forgiving of disconnections."