I doubt that many people cheat this way. As for accidentally accessing a game when logged out, a player would have to compound the error by reading the chat; if they didn’t do that then the accidental access wouldn’t matter.
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I like OP’s suggestion to make the e-mail link show you the game from your perspective, logged in or not.
It guards against accidental reading what you didn’t want to see.
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We’d have to require login to achieve that.
At the moment a purported benefit of Malk is that you can see it even as a guest.
I say purported, because I don’t see Malk getting much use at all, let alone by guests.
I added a filter to the “Watch” page to allow you to find games with Malk. I used it a few times myself, but never found anything interesting … I seem to be one of the rare people who just chats to myself in Malk 
Edit: actually, I went and tried this again and did bump into a more interesting Malk log in correspondence games … huh! But I’ve still yet to see kibitzing in Malk - ever.
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Little if any kibitzing goes on, at least at lower levels. However, a lot of Malk was used for move commentary (for viewing after the game) in the Regular-Six rengo games a year or more ago. I use it in most of my games for that reason.
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Check out my games 
(Not saying my MLog is worth anything as I’m only ~8k, but it’s usually only for myself and for my opponents anyway.)
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Not really, we can have a guest xxx in the log. For moderation only associated with a (hidden for users) IP
For convenience this log should be separated from the chat but with reference to moves numbers and time (in/out)
Malakovitch is something inherited from the correspondance gaming roots, I feel it’s interesting how we can get it working well and being attractive to the live world. There are more examples of its use on the L19 forum btw.
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Uhm, “Malkovich” is something that OGS copied from the L19 forum actually 
Oh I never said that OGS created this concept
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