Why does "restrict rank" allow ? players?

[flovo]

@dragon-devourer

So, improved rating stability

I don’t know how you come from increased rating drift to stability.
We are probably in this scenario:

@Vsotvep

What we could do (as an example of a bad decision), is make the initial rank selection based on the average rating on the server: if the average is 1500, then initial beginner rank could be 1000, and if the average is 500, the initial beginner rank could be 0:

Here the drift is naturally even stronger than before and what’s more problematic, it won’t settle down.

since data from old OGS suggests most players chose the lowest rank

@dragon-devourer

@_KoBa

This was the ogs rank distribution when user were allowed to choose their starting rank between 30k and 6d…

I’m afraid the same thing would happen again with the lowest available option for starting rank…

Is this a sign that lots of people erroneously set their rank as 30 kyu (whether on purpose or by accident) as suggested? Or is this actually a sign that we genuinely have a lot of beginners? Without some more detailed analysis of the data, it’s hard to say

while the average rating of new accounts seems to be closer to the 1500 mark

@flovo

If we just adjust the rating->rank formula to account for the drift, inactive accounts will increase in rank over time. In this case my question would be: for how long do I’ve to stop playing go to become 9d.