Doubt about my k factor

Hello. I born in April 2004. Some of them are saying there is a factor after I become 18 years and my ratings will increase very slow. So anyone who knows clearly about this tell me that when will my K factor of that will start?

You talking FIDE Elo?

ratings.fide.com/calculator_rtd.phtml

@chessvideworld If you are under 18 and haven't played 30 Elo rated games yet, your K-Factor is 40. If you have played more than 30 games and your under 18, your K-factor becomes 30. If you have played more than 30 games and you're above 18, your K-Factor becomes 20, as long as your rating is under 2400. If your rating surpasses 2400, your K-factor becomes 10. So by the time you'll be 18 and will have played more than 30 Elo rated games (not tournaments, I mean games), you won't gain ratings that fast.

Here an example to explain how K-Factor influences you rating: Lets imagine your K-Factor is 40 (that means you are under 18 and haven't played 30 Elo rated games yet) and you play against someone rated at least 400 points above you in a tournament. If you manage to score an upset win, you can win 40 points (as 40 is your K-Factor). If you lose to someone who is rated at least 400 points below you, you lose 40 points. Note that winning/losing against someone more than 400 points above/under you counts the same as if you win/lose to someone exactly 400 points above/under you. So basically with every game you can win/lose 40 points at maximum. Now as you get above 18 soon, your K-Factor will be 20 (I'm assuming you'll have played more than 30 Elo rated games till your 18th birthday). That means that you can only win/lose 20 points at maximum per game. That automatically means that a win will not gain as many points as the time before when you were under 18, but that also means you can't lose that many points as back then. So on the one hand it's a negative point, but on the other hand it's a positive point too.

Hope you understood how the K-Factor works and what will change after your 18th birthday.

-Anant06

Thanks @Anant06

This is all quite comical and absurd.

@MrPushwood what you mean? This is how Elo system works

and How it works is comical. It was state of the art maybe round 1970 when computer time had to rented from computing centres. It does work somehow but it is not good.

But changing rating system is impossible in huge organisation like FIDE

What is the thinking or intent or developmental knowledge or concern behind how this works, might be a good question. because Kafka-esque is how it sounds right now. I did not know about this at all... Could be having good reasons, but just the description does not give a hint of what it might be.

So I guess this might be a why rather than a how about implementation!?

Edit: or Ionesco-esque