If i had to play 6 games with a bot to gain access to the OGS rating system maybe i would never come here.
I knew when i wrote my first answer that you can cancel as a trick to avoid to play with a (?) but i deliberately didn’t mention it. In my opinion giving an option to chose to never play with (?) would be a disaster as a huge incentive and will become like the default setting. Until now i think OGS is much better in that aspect as KGS and i hope it stays so.
Nice little trick, but only available when you have the chance to see them playing. Not always convenient.
I thank @Conrad_Melville to give us a precious report in the eyes of a moderator and i feel voiceless about alt sandbagging.
I appreciate the detailed analysis of the different attitudes of real beginners he gives and that push me to believe that a Tutor system like i proposed already could annihilate a big part of the reluctance to play a (?) and alleviate the mods from a lot of alt sandbagging problems (not all of them i agree)
On my own more general view of how to integrate better the beginners in OGS:
Let’s make OGS even more friendly with beginners