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Puzzle Ratings Extremely Easy To Gain

#1
Lichess puzzle ratings are so easily raised. If you set a puzzle rating to 600+ your current puzzle rating, you can lose just about no rating from failing a puzzle, and by solving that puzzle you gain way more than you normally would. Just get lucky with the occasional puzzle that you can solve, because they almost always come.
I don't see this as rating manipulation, since I'm using a feature lichess added itself.
#3
@Ifancy_potato said in #2:
> For example, this puzzle here
> lichess.org/training/mMy2g
> An average 1500 could see the mate in 3 or 6 point advantage that the queen can take here.

It might help, though, to not see solving puzzles as a kind of rating competition but as a tool for improving, regardless of rating. After all, there are no prizes to be won by getting a high puzzle rating. Failing one and losing some points or failing it and losing no points because it was unrated is the same: A fail is a fail, and a win is a win.
#4
@The_Merry_Chesster said in #3:
> It might help, though, to not see solving puzzles as a kind of rating competition but as a tool for improving, regardless of rating. After all, there are no prizes to be won by getting a high puzzle rating. Failing one and losing some points or failing it and losing no points because it was unrated is the same: A fail is a fail, and a win is a win.
I see puzzles as a personal rating competition to see how bad at chess I can be and still get a high rating, but you're right. I should probably drop my rating a bit and use puzzles the way they were intended and maybe become actually good at chess.
#5
Puzzle rating is determined the same way a player's rating is. It's considered a "game" between the user and the puzzle, winner gains rating, loser, well, loses it. An easy puzzle with a high rating might not have been played enough to find its place in the system, just like some players.
#7
The Lichess puzzle rating is worthless and doesn't tell you or others anything. Do puzzles for your personal enjoyment and for sharpening your tactical skills, not for the numbers.
#8
I know having a high puzzle rating means nothing, I'll probably end up losing a bunch of puzzles on purpose to get back to my comfortable level so I can improve my actual chess. (That probably isn't illegal with puzzles?)