How NOT to select players with the question mark rank?

[shinuito]

@espoojaram

it won’t affect your rank. If you play too long so you can’t cancel and instead you resign against a [?] player, it will affect your rank almost insignificantly (the mathematics of the rating system takes that into account), so I don’t think you have to worry about that too much.

It’ll affect the opponent’s rank however. If a 6kyu resigns against a new player, the system thinks this player must be stronger or as strong as a 6kyu, and so on.

I don’t recommend that you just resign against [?] ranked players, unless you ask a moderator to annul the game. It’ll take much longer for newer players to get to their actual rating with wrong results.

@Sabi_Ha

They could have the rank “0” and play other beginners. But ok, rules are rules.

They do actually get matched up with other [?] mark players intially as mentioned here

All new players should be ranked via bot

We actually do do this, but there’s not always another ? rank available. We basically have a system where we wait a short while for a “perfect match up”, then expand our reach and wait for a litle longer for a less perfect but good match up, then expand our reach, etc… until we reach the bounds setup by the user.

but it’s just giving them another game in the rating range when there’s not another [?] mark available I believe.