I believe the offense of "artificially increasing or decreasing one's own rating" should be expanded to this offense, "artificially increasing or decreasing any person's rating, ranking or tournament points". This will include some behaviors that I believe exist right now:
1.Using alts to artificially lower other people's rating.
2.Using alts to artificially increase other people's rating.
3.Using alts to occupy or remove other people from Top 1, Top 5 and Top 10 by artificially lowering other people's rating and hence kick them out of the Top list.
Behavior 1 and 2 are generally done as a strategy to get Behavior 3 done.
1.Using alts to artificially lower other people's rating.
2.Using alts to artificially increase other people's rating.
3.Using alts to occupy or remove other people from Top 1, Top 5 and Top 10 by artificially lowering other people's rating and hence kick them out of the Top list.
Behavior 1 and 2 are generally done as a strategy to get Behavior 3 done.