OrbitalEccentric, in this thread my post has a Timeout offender that “actually mattered to me”. A cheater. I'm fed up
A quick look at your history, Orbital, shows
https://online-go.com/player/490644/
Or
https://online-go.com/player/479382/
Or (check out how many of this guy’s games were voided!).
Not serial cheaters (maybe player unstable is, though) but just as an examples, your recent “Win by Timeout” didn’t count for these opponents, OrbitalEccentric. And one of yours after 208 moves! This is happening to you all the time❗️ I’m only looking back a couple days! In fact, i believe that MOST of your Wins by Timeout are unranked, OrbitalEccentric. The majority were unranked for you and you don’t even know it.
It’s been proven many times, so we now go back to solutions. And, before someone says “Look how much that bunch of Tineouts would have swung the ratings system if they counted”, the counterargument is that a) the rating system is swung by them not counting also, and, as b) it allows players to cheat, it swings it even more than if cheating was eliminated, and c) since people who “Win by Timeout” don’t even know their game was unranked, they continue to play games with the “Recenlty Timed Out of a Game” player, turning off that badge, thus negating the benefit of the badge for all others (and allowing cheaters to continue to play new and old opponents indefinitely).
I think these games should say “Annulled By Timeout”, start with that small change.
Anyone else…brainstorm ideas to help our team solve this. Thanks for all input.