Lichess message about "Attempts to artificially manipulate [...] own or someone else's rating "

Received this message from Lichess:"In your game history, you have several games where you clearly have intentionally lost the game. Attempts to artificially manipulate your own or someone else's rating are unacceptable.

If this behaviour continues to happen, your account will be restricted."
Below: " Lichess doesn't accept new messages."

OK, first, not sure why Lichess doesn't accept new messages.

I did gave up on some games. In some cases the game took a very boring or constipated course and I lost interest in playing. In other cases I found the nominally 1500? opponent was actually a 1800+ level user. That means the selection of opponent's level when doing "Create a Game" does not work properly - that is Lichess' fault, not mine!
But accusation that I attempted "to artificially manipulate [...] own or someone else's rating " is wrong and baseless.

Any comments?

Use lichess.org/appeal and then “I want to discuss a warning that I have received” if you feel the warning was unwarranted.

This is an example game:



Resignation on move 2 is not appropriate. (It wasn't appropriate when Magnus did it against Hans OTB either)

First of all, many thanks for the reply! That sentence " Lichess doesn't accept new messages" sounded autistic, eh.

"not appropriate" is fine. Never said I haven't done that. In this case look at the opponents profile! Master_dobrblx_del is, right now, at 2373 in blitz. Why was he playing at "1500?" - I do know why , small number of games in classical - but I do not want to play with someone who is 2000+, okay, - so lichess should make sure they don't come to me in the first place if I limited the range in "Create game", which I did.

The accusation "to artificially manipulate [...] own or someone else's rating " is something completely different. Accusing people like that has a distinct feel of what totalitarian regimes do.

@zandel_zandel said in #4:
> Master_dobrblx_del is, right now, at 2373 in blitz. Why was he playing at "1500?"
Because 30+0 is not a blitz and 1500 was black's classical rating _was_ 1500 at the moment. But as it was most likely the initial value, he also had the initial value of rating deviation (250 or 300, IIRC) which means that losing against such player did not harm your rating nearly as much as a loss against a "stable" ~1500 rated player would. And indeed, you lost only 3 points of rating for this game.

People often feel as if playing someone with provisional rating is a terrible piece of bad luck because such player may be severely underrated and their rating will suffer. Just last week I played a rapid game (my rapid rating is still provisional) and rather than worrying about the game (TBH, the game was awful from my side but my opponent messed up even worse), my opponent's comment was "I'm never playing anyone with a ? Besides there rating again." But that's completely wrong as (1) there is 50% chance a provisional player is overrated rather than underrated and (2) the way Glicko-2 takes volatility into account, your rating is protected from being affected significantly by a game against a player whose rating is unreliable (regardless of the result).

> The accusation "to artificially manipulate [...] own or someone else's rating " is something completely different.
You might want to read the ToS you agreed with when you registered here. It explicitely states that losing on purpose is not accepted. The fact that you did it because of seeing ghosts rather than to manipulate your rating does not change much.

> Accusing people like that has a distinct feel of what totalitarian regimes do.
...and this is way over the line. Calm down, please.

Classical, rapid, whatever, he IS a 2000+ level player. Lichess put in place "Rating range" in "Create game", not I.
Sorry, but you seem to miss my point completely, it is not about rating (I'd lose points -and not many-whether I continued or not, I know that).
I reiterate, I do not want to play with someone who is 2000+. (or 1800+ plus for that matter). That is not the same as "seeing ghosts".
Yes, it may be unpleasant for the opponent if I quit, but it would have been unpleasant for me if I continued, so what gives?

If it is about tournaments, that's not an issue for me as I haven't played those or intend to do so, so if restricting me from tournaments would settle this, that is fine with me.

Regards

See the lichess terms of service (lichess.org/terms-of-service) specifically the section about Fair Play Violations. By playing on lichess.org you are accepting those terms of service, so there is really no use in trying to argue that what you are doing by resigning early is not rating manipulation.

Ratings can vary between different categories (see my, or even your own profile) so obviously it makes sense that the pairing algorithm only takes into account the rating that is actually relevant to the category of the game.

In the future, to avoid getting marked for rating manipulation, please play each rated game with best effort.

Thankfully, playing on lichess is not mandatory for anyone.
I do appreciate the time you have taken to reply.