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Losing games on purpose?

Wow, a little touchy about the losing games on purpose warning. I make a blunder in an end game and then botch the next 960 opening and I get this warning. Maybe make it a little more lenient than just two games back to back.
I think it's against the rules to do the following:
1. Repeatedly resigning before first move in tournament games to avoid wasting time playing too strong players;
2. Repeatedly failing to start games in tournaments;
3. Repeatedly resigning after very few moves to avoid playing openings you do not like.
These things may get you marked as: "This player artificially increases/decreases their rating"
For more information: lichess.org/qa/192/what-is-this-player-artificially-increasesdecreases-their-rating
You're complaining against something that benefits you. Once that person resigns you get the rating points anyway. On to the next person.
@QG4U First of all, the person lost the games and received the warning, you misunderstand.

But more importantly, maybe people are here because they actually want to play chess, not just inflate some utterly meaningless number next to their anonymous username?
Cannot help with OP's Problem, but rating rigging is a problem. It's just unsportsmanlike.
The reason why people do it to have some leverage. In Tournament play e.g. a guy rated 2400 may ply his rating to 2200 or less and win the under 2200 category. Then lose rating again and win the next tournament with same issue. Admittedly it is less of a thing in lichess, but still, would not you be pissed playing against a guy who is rated 1600, who is playing 1900? At least you would be losing points to him, as 1/5 against 1900 would be fine rating wise, but 1/5 against 1600 who just plays like 1900 will cost you some nerves maybe

Btw, I myself don'T care about that, I am here to play for fun against equal oponents, and if I happen to be qually paired against someone who has only 2000 I don't care. But there are people that do. And for their sake this rule has to be active
Saddest thing I've seen is people cheating in unranked. Can't get my head around that, like wtf. Seriously like 4 out of 10 players use some kind of engine when a critical position is reached. Cancer.
"Seriously like 4 out of 10 players use some kind of engine when a critical position is reached."

Do you have a source for that, or are you just making stuff up?

But yeah, cheating in casual games is amazingly sad. I mean, doing it at all is, what a waste of one's time to just sit there mirroring computer chess moves, what on earth is the point? But with casual games you don't even get the fleeting glory of seeing your alias rated higher than a bunch of other strangers' aliases on some arbitrary, flawed leaderboard.

I pretty much only play anonymous games on lichess right now, and probably five times in the past three months I've won by forfeit where my opponent was caught cheating while the game was in progress. How pathetic!

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