I'm adding this ridiculous bullshit to my list of favorite quotes. You would have to be a lichess user for the past year to understand it.

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9 months ago#1

It's an atrocity. I remember back in the day when it seemed that you could never go under 60 rd no matter how many games you played. Every match used to give you a boatload of points (or take those points away). Do you remember that smug feeling of having a solid winstreak and a horde of points to show for it, or the despair after being ground into a -100 point paste on a bad day? It felt so alive.

Now? I have a lousy 46.30 rating deviation. I spend 6 minutes of my life playing a game just to gain/lose 6 rating, are you serious? Trying to gain rating feels like trudging through the muck of the glicko swamplands. Finally cutting a path through the dense shrubbery of game after game while being harassed by a mosquito swarm of ragequitters -- only to discover that wow, congrats, +4 rating cause you played some dude 100 points below you. And I look at the commits and it's been lowered again, with plans to go lower!

(github.com/ornicar/lila/commit/d71dce286e932162ee8be17ca1bf348b41b91f4b) You have to be kidding me. Is having slightly more accurate ratings really worth giving up the feeling of gaining a fat stack of rating? I don't think it is.

Shouldn't chess be exciting? Don't you love the feeling, the rush as you greedily admire those points you so rightfully earned after trouncing an inferior opponent? The anger after making that one stupid blunder against your low-leveled opponent that punished you by mauling your rating with a fat -15? The feeling of being alive as you ride on the rating rollercoaster?

It's time to do what's right for lichess. It's time to raise the minimum rating deviation back up to 60.