Why does "restrict rank" allow ? players?

[GreenAsJade]

I think the 13k default rank is doing harm [Closed]

From my understanding glicko needs a central starting point. lichess.org does it exactly the same way (they also start at 1500 elo) and I don’t for a second imagine that that is a conincidence. You can’t simultaneously say glicko is great but i wanna pick what rank i start at because that stops being glicko. If a new player plays 2-3 ranked games they can fall all the way to 25 kyu (let alone the 16 kyu required to play ranked games with 25 kyus) so I’m guessing the issue is more that new play…

This is as far back as I have been able to trace this assertion (still looking).