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Feature request: Pre-accept challenges

Even if I want to re-match my opponent, I often do not do so. This is because a large share of challenge requests don't get accepted. Since I don't want to waste time, I stopped challenging because of this. I think this is an inefficient equilibrium.

This can possibly be approved by *pre-accepted challenges*. If I opt into this, then my opponent will see a flag over my username that tells my opponent that I will accept any challenge. Thus, they will challenge me more often. To enforce this, we can turn any abort of the game by me into a loss.

I think that doing that can strongly increase rematches, which are fun!
Why would people opt into something that could negatively impact their rating if they get rematched when they need to go or something, so lose rating for aborting the game?
It's because there are many cases where the benefit (much higher likelihood of getting rematched) exceeds the very small cost (having to leave, which I didn't know when I started it). Of course there are many variations of this idea: For instance, one could have an icon that stands for "I will accept any challenge". This icon leads to more people rematching me. If I abort more than 2 of those rematched games, I lose that icon.

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