[SOLVED] How to fix "Cannot include links in your profile until you have established a rank"- I just want to modify my profile, not include a link

I’m now trying to update my self-introduction. There was a link in my self-introduction, and now I’m trying to remove it. However, after removing that link, when I try to save my changes, a message pops up saying, “Cannot include links in your profile until you have established a rank,” and I cannot update my self-introduction. How can I fix this issue?

Edit:

BTW, since the message only says I cannot include links, it should be okay if I write a self-introduction without adding any links inside. However, the system does not allow me to modify my self-introduction at all - even if I just want to delete everything in it. It seems like a system bug. Is there any way I can contact the moderators or the developers and let them know about this potential bug?

Edit 2:

This problem has been solved. It turns out that the reason why I could not save my modification was that I had added some random text in the box just above the “save” button (where I put a “HERE” in the attached picture). After removing that text, I am able to save my changes. It is not a system bug, and I will never consider establishing a rank. Thank you for all the constructive suggestion - I mean, only the constructive ones.

Get a rank. Usually that takes a few games.

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How can I get a rank? I’ve played more than a thousand games, but my rank still shows " [?] ".

Weird. Because you did play ranked games.
Sorry can help you with this.
A smarter person than me maybe can help you.

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Play and lose against stronger players.

BTW, since the message only says I cannot include links, it should be okay if I write a self-introduction without adding any links inside. However, the system does not allow me to modify my self-introduction at all - even if I just want to delete everything in it. It seems like a system bug. Is there any way I can contact the moderators or the developers and let them know about this potential bug?

You’re just doing it. :slightly_smiling_face:
The forum is the way.

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It is possible that the system has determined it cannot yet finalize your rating because you haven’t lost enough matches. The [?] symbol indicates a placement status; a specific rank will be displayed once your rating is finalized and your tier is determined.

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Your “uncertainty” is high, because you play only people way weaker than you, and you have no losses.

Since you have no losses, the system has no indication of the kind of player that will beat you, so we don’t know your rank.

You can see this on your rank graph: ever since you started to play only weaker players, you stopped losing, and the uncertainty band on your rank has been increasing.

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Hey, thank you for your reply. There is another problem regarding this:

Since the message only says I cannot include links, it should be okay if I write a self-introduction without adding any links inside. However, the system does not allow me to modify my self-introduction at all - even if I just want to delete everything in it. It thus seems like a system bug. Could you please look into this issue?

iirc rank comes after few losses, winning is not enough to determine your initial rank

I never expected that it’s really possible to play hundreds of ranked games while increasing rating uncertainty in the process and losing a rank as the result :grinning_face:

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Sandbagging King :heart:

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It’s not even an “initial rank” thing.

This person previously had a rank, and lost it by winning vs vastly different ranked (weaker) opponents all the time.

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Thank you all for taking the time to leave the comments.

Until now, most comments have focused on how I can establish a rank. However, there is another thing that I am currently more concerned about:

Even if I do not have a rank, I should still be allowed to edit my profile/self-introduction.

This is because, according to the system message, the only thing I am not allowed to do is to include links in my profile.

But now I am not allowed to modify my profile/self-introduction in any way.

Please help me fix this and let me modify my profile/self-introduction without including links.

makes sense :light_bulb:
the error message should say “you can’t edit your self-introduction until you have established a rank”
Should be an easy fix

Looking at your profile ieqcdvdt now, there is no ‘About you’ section, so are you saying going from blank to e.g. “Test” doesn’t save, with the message about no links until you have a rank?

I think it’s only here

that players without a rank can’t add a link. It’s possible to put links in the paragraph below.

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It works! It turns out that the only reason why I could not save the changes was that I had added some random text in the box you marked in red. I did not know that thing was also considered a “link.” Thank you for solving my problem!