I would assume they verify titled players to avoid any potential liability or defamation legal issues but they aren't the most professional bunch so who really knows. There are a lot of questionable practices they've done over the years as an organization.
As for Irwin, its detection rate, and thresholds, it has fairly high false-positive rates inherent in the model.
From my experience, if you get banned don't expect any kind of due process.
They aren't professional, they don't respond. Not even the legal contact on their charity.
Not everyone gets banned for cheating.
They do ban people from the lichess site for many other unprofessional reasons such as contributing to the project (when they don't like what you had to say on an issue and you weren't spamming).
I have to wonder how many similar-named accounts got axed alongside mine when they decided to go after me for what I disclosed. Its not like my github username was connected in any way to my lichess account (or that similarly named).
Needless to say, I don't use their platform anymore because its more bots than anything else, and I don't volunteer my time to people that don't deserve it.
As a side note, their lack of standard professional practices make me wonder what kind of fraud is actually going on behind the scenes.
As a business, the only arguably beneficial reason for not following GAAP+ other standard business practices is to commit a fraud.
As for Irwin, its detection rate, and thresholds, it has fairly high false-positive rates inherent in the model.
From my experience, if you get banned don't expect any kind of due process. They aren't professional, they don't respond. Not even the legal contact on their charity.
Not everyone gets banned for cheating.
They do ban people from the lichess site for many other unprofessional reasons such as contributing to the project (when they don't like what you had to say on an issue and you weren't spamming).
I have to wonder how many similar-named accounts got axed alongside mine when they decided to go after me for what I disclosed. Its not like my github username was connected in any way to my lichess account (or that similarly named).
Needless to say, I don't use their platform anymore because its more bots than anything else, and I don't volunteer my time to people that don't deserve it.
As a side note, their lack of standard professional practices make me wonder what kind of fraud is actually going on behind the scenes.
As a business, the only arguably beneficial reason for not following GAAP+ other standard business practices is to commit a fraud.