Most other systems don’t let you register at some upper point (like 1k for example) which i fully understand. OGS is even more straight by automatic registration at 6k or 12k, i dunno in fact exactly which one. Seems not much worry as i guess those stronger players may accept a bunch of easy games for getting their rank updated.
Now my concern is more about those people starting to play go. Most servers don’t put a constraint to them to enter the system as a 12 (or 6?)k and even if glicko will reajust it in like 7 games (with some good luck or manual reajustement by a mod) and OGS is by far the most unfair placr to go for them.
I really hope this could change by offering them an entry point at their level (25k?)
This entry could be discrete, not advertised too much by simply asking “are you a beginner ?” when registering a new account. No mention of the rank that will be attributed. Sandbagging may be even easier to detect and those beginners won’t have the hassle to go through that crushing experience they have yet.