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GLICKO formula is needs revision IMMEDIATELY!

@Thalassokrator I think is perfectly fine to show the decimal one. In fact it is more transparent and more accurate. Anybody can read a 2340.6, there is nothing difficult about it unless you are a 1st grader.

It is not a matter of convincing is just more accurate. The fact that the rating in your profile has a note saying "yes ratings have floating numbers" but then not showing those floating in the games is inconsistent.
@rampageJackson
Well, I can't argue that not rounding would make it LESS accurate. That's kind of the definition of rounding.

Making it optional (such that you could toggle it on or off in the settings) would be completely fine by me. Rounding is done for convenience purposes only.
I personally don't care about displaying a hundredth or a tenth of a rating point in the UI (though that would of course be more rigorous, I agree) since my rating can change by several tens of rating points (two to three orders of magnitude larger) within the span of a single day. Therefore I have no problem with displaying the rating in rounded form (as long as all of the calculations "under the hood" are carried out before rounding in order to avoid rounding errors, which I'm certain they are on Lichess).
@Thalassokrator thanks for been so reasonable. Toggle feature would be nice although probably more effort from a programming perspective.

Also, I understand that ratings changes so much that floating shouldn't be so important. But it is so frustrating to see your rating go up 5 points when you win a game and lose 6 points when you lose that it really makes you think something is fishy.

To me if the opponent lose 6 points I should gain those 6 points. Now i understand if the RD is big the player will lose or win big.

Maybe as a experimental we can have something that renews that RD.

I say this because if for example you are a very weak player through your first 3000 games. At some point you gain good strength, it will really be difficult for that player to increase his/her rating because the RD is so low now that first he is being matched with players around his same strength originally so he will earn virtually 6 to 5 points in each game. imagine if you are a 1300 rating trying to increase to 2300? What do you do? Create a new account?

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