Country flag choice / mislead

Honestly dude, you are contradicting yourself.
You dont want comments who "drag it into politics"
Have you read your own comments ?
You speak for every russian person too?
Good luck in whatever it is you want to achieve.

lichess.org/blog/Yie1MhIAACAAk6OQ/lichess-statement-on-the-war-in-ukraine

This is the official stance.

> All users are reminded that Lichess has the right to proactively remove access to certain services or features of our website from users who, at our sole discretion, violate our Terms of Service (ToS). **This includes the glorification of terrorism, sharing extremist, bigoted, or racist views, and promotion of genocide / war crimes.**

Your putinist views are basically all of this.

@nadjarostowa said in #20:
> maybe contribute to changes to make people less ashamed of it.

Shame is when you make bad things and then feel bad about it, right? I was born in Russia. Now, it seems, I have to be ashamed of that. Ashamed of my country, its flag, language, and so forth. And at the end, my favorite composer is Rachmaninoff. Shame on me!

@lena741
Maybe shame is the wrong word, and as a German citizen I can assure you that I know that feeling ashamed for what other people are doing or did in the past is dubious.

Maybe "pride" (or here lack thereof) is a better word? Basically, putting distance between the other people's bad deeds and yourself, although you have a thing (your nation) in common.

Personally, I think "being proud to be ... [insert any nationality here]" is a pretty silly concept. I don't glorify people because some of their nation's football players won a championship, and I have to universal hate to members of a country whose leaders decide to murder people.

And if someone wants to show to the world "look, I am Russian, but that genocide is not me", by all means we should support that.

I have read the recent comments and most of them are some whining and babbling about shame, "better version of flag" and other utter nonsense from typical copy-paste anti-russian propaganda by few people who represent the sorry community that I barely can call opposition. They do spam massively to create the illusion that there are a lot of them, but in reality, they are very few.

If people are shamed of their country, government body, people, culture then it is their own personal issue, this is not a therapy session here to for it.

The reason of this topic is that a part of Lichess team who share same view take the benefit of their power and support this deviation and silence the others. This is why it is important to drag maximum attention to it.

P.S.: Speaking about contribution to the better changes - this is exactly what I am doing, by removing any misleading information and by showing that we are proud Russian people who do not tolerate silently such discrimination.

You know what Lichess would do if they wanted to abuse power? Exactly, ban Russia's flag and ban Russian players. They're not doing it, despite it has been requested a lot.

@lena741 many smart compatriots of yours are indeed deeply shamed about what Russia is doing to the world and its own citizens, being so evil, rogue and mendacious. They're so ashamed that they leave. I would also move from Germany to Austria/Switzerland if Germany fell again into another fascist dictatorship.

The aggressor must fall! Slava Ukraini!

@UnDo_CtrlZ said in #25:
> The reason of this topic is that a part of Lichess team who share same view take the benefit of their power and support this deviation and silence the others. This is why it is important to drag maximum attention to it.

you know what you should do? you should report this travesty to roskomnadzor. they blocked chesscom for less. that would show those lichess team members trying to silence you.

edit: i just noticed you created your account on april 24th, 2022. what a coincidence!

@nadjarostowa said in #24:
> Maybe "pride" (or here lack thereof) is a better word?

Maybe. But returning to the main topic, flag is not supposed to be about that. Flag is literally just to specify a country where you live. No more. It's not a platform for sharing your position on anything.

It's like when you fill a survey, and in field "Country" you write "Russia, but I against the Putin", and "sex" you write "Male, but I'm gay" and so on.

Flag is just a *recognizable* symbol of country. It has some useful functions, for example, which language is to use in chat. Having multiple symbols for one country ruins the whole purpose. If you have to read tooltip to understand what those fancy flag means, then probably something went wrong.

@UnDo_CtrlZ said in #25:
> The reason of this topic is that a part of Lichess team who share same view take the benefit of their power and support this deviation and silence the others. This is why it is important to drag maximum attention to it.

I wonder how you know that it's a *part* of the Lichess team and not *all* the Lichess team.

Flags convey a wide range of meanings: They are powerful symbols that represent associations, ideologies, visions, and integrity that inspire respect. In our chess profiles, I believe the flags promote integrity and sportsmanship.

whitebluewhite.info/english
hyperallergic.com/723168/new-flag-of-russias-anti-war-movement/

Flags rally people together. A flag serves to identify, but can also symbolize opposition or resistance. In wars, it nice to recognize the friends from the foe.

It would be great to see profile flag tournaments, where only players with the same profile flag could compete against each other. To maintain chess integrity, a flag change to mislead others just to match a profile tournament announcement should not be permitted. A country flag choice should remain possible as long as it does not match an announced profile flag tournament.

The choice of using a flag is optional, but if there was tournaments dedicated to players that have a flag in their profile, it would filter out those flagless accounts.