Is the OGS team aware of this?

[yebellz]

There has been a lot of discussion about the rating system on these forums, which can be found via the search feature.

Here is a post from last year regarding some updates:

2021 Rating and rank adjustments

tl;dr - Expect a notable bump in your rank. The lower the rank you are, the larger the increase. This transition is planned to take effect around 2021-01-28T01:30:00Z (UTC) . Summary of the update: We are attempting to align our low dan ranks to be comparable to the EGF and AGA low dan ranks. Currently we are projecting that a 1d OGS rank will be about .7 stones weaker than an EGF 1d and about 0.8 stones stronger than an AGA 1d. These numbers will be re-evaluated once the dust settles, but…

I personally don’t know all of the details, but I believe the rating system on OGS has received very significant and careful consideration.

I’m not sure if the article that you post is entirely relevant, since OGS is actually using the Glicko2 rating system rather than Elo. Could you please clarify what you specifically meant to point out?