[?] / new / provisional accounts

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Do [?] accounts affect the ranks of their opponents?

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Affirmative.

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However, they affect your rating only slightly because [?] players have a very high rating deviation.

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Really? I thought I saw @anoek say somewhere that they don’t…

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I tested it.

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In both directions? IIRC, beating a ? will get you points but losing to a ? won’t lose you points.

Apologies if I remembered that incorrectly.

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Nope, it does lose you points.

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But the effect may be adjusted later as their rank solidifies. If they shoot up to Dan then the loss is retrospectively minimal, yes?

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If that happens within the rating period, then I think yes.

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I didn’t test that.

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Given everything else we know about the system, it seems likely to be true (even if specific testing is difficult)

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