Selling chess lessons on lichess should be forbidden by default for not titled players

Hello. Nothing wrong with selling lessons, but I see frauds here. I know one that time ago used to claim to be a master and cheated to reach high ratings (he got multiple accounts banned), he sold lessons. He had WhatsApp and Facebook groups too and lured A LOT of people. Probably he's still active, and I believe there're many like him.

There're even those who, even without going to such lengths, aren't very honest. Today I've read a blog post in the homepage (!), it got a lot of views and hearts. It was an huge advertising camouflaged by interesting stuff, it came from a guy who sold lessons. His ratings? 1499 (!) Blitz, 1802 Rapid, 1777 Classical. I looked at some of his games, amateur stuff. How does he sell lessons?
One could say "Nothing wrong with it". I disagree! I've got ratings much higher than him and I know I'm not even near to having the qualities and strenght needed to teach chess. Should I believe he doesn't understand he's an amateur? He understands, believe me. He knows he sells NOTHING. He sells youth potions, he sells homeopathic medicine, and he knows it. He is a farmer talking about physics, and he knows it.

I think selling commercial stuff on lichess should be forbidden, unless you are a titled player or you have been given a special permission by lichess itself.

You are right. However, I disagree with one point, that is, the selling of lessons. I think non-titled players should also be able to have a coaching page and coach, as long as you're 18 or older. Even if you're not a tiled player, the player might know a lot of theory and know how to explain everything patiently but just always blunder material in practice (for example if you have a 1250 FIDE Rating like I have and keep blundering forks, but are very strong at positional play and know how to explain it to your students).

Non-titled players should just also be able to coach.

@Jisu101 said in #2:
> You are right. However, I disagree with one point, that is, the selling of lessons. I think non-titled players should also be able to have a coaching page and coach, as long as you're 18 or older. Even if you're not a tiled player, the player might know a lot of theory and know how to explain everything patiently but just always blunder material in practice (for example if you have a 1250 FIDE Rating like I have and keep blundering forks, but are very strong at positional play and know how to explain it to your students).
>
> Non-titled players should just also be able to coach.

I disagree, my opinion is if you want to get paid to teach something you've got to be competent into it, else you're selling garbage.

@giancz91 said in #3:
> I disagree, my opinion is if you want to get paid to teach something you've got to be competent into it, else you're selling garbage.

If you aren't selling good lessons you'll get bad reviews and no one will choose you, right? If you're good at giving lessons, many people will choose you and it's not garbage. By the way, even Jeremy Silman and many other strong players were quite impressed of a 1500 player giving lessons just like an IM would give lessons, even though his playing in practice wasn't very good.

@Jisu101 said in #4:
> If you aren't selling good lessons you'll get bad reviews and no one will choose you, right? If you're good at giving lessons, many people will choose you and it's not garbage. By the way, even Jeremy Silman and many other strong players were quite impressed of a 1500 player giving lessons just like an IM would give lessons, even though his playing in practice wasn't very good.

Beginners aren't able to tell if lessons are good or not, so I disagree with your point about reviews. Too, where to review coaches? On lichess there's no place to do it. On their YouTube channel, where they can moderate comments?

About the guy you're talking about he is an exception in my opinion.

@giancz91 said in #5:
> Beginners aren't able to tell if lessons are good or not, so I disagree with your point about reviews. Too, where to review coaches? On lichess there's no place to do it. On their YouTube channel, where they can moderate comments?
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> About the guy you're talking about he is an exception in my opinion.

Almost anyone can coach people that are lower rated than yourself, as long as you have the patience to explain everything and be ready to answer any questions.

Even if someone is higher rated, you might have different strengths and weaknesses. For example, A could help B with positional play, but A has trouble with tactics and B helps A to recognise tactics better.

@giancz91 said in #5:
> On lichess there's no place to do it.

True, but some coaches have a place where reviews can be put.

Also, in the past, you actually could. Don't know why they removed that feature.

@Jisu101 said in #7:
> True, but some coaches have a place where reviews can be put.
>
> Also, in the past, you actually could. Don't know why they removed that feature.

A place decided by them, you'll find only good reviews there.

But what about Lichess bringing the review feature back?
And also add this at the same time?

This reminds me of...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_vvI26NnwE&t=1s