Shield me from players with provisional ratings?

Hello,

when playing friendly games I way too often am paired with players of rating "1500?" who are engines or bots. I cannot find filters that will allow me to avoid such pairings, and lichess is sending me warning about temporary ban if I abort too many games. On chess.com there is no such problem. Please help !

Lichess; can you just do the smart thing and disallow people to put chess.com in any message?

Basically any site does this with the competition. i'd bet chess.com does it with lichess.org

Stupid posts like this are 100% absolutely nothing but advertisements from idiots for chess.com

They dont actually have a question; nor a complaint. They just wanna come up with a randy reason to to cry and try to send people over there.

end this plez

Listen, I am not affiliated with chess.com, sorry I mentioned it. I should have said "some other site". My apologies.

There are engine users with established ratings as well. Lichess does a good job at detecting and banning them. Everybody starts with a provisional rating. It is selfish not wanting to play new users, as you once were a new user yourself. It does not even shield you from engine users.

@Robitaille they also might not be bot: they can be very strong players without an established rating. You just do not know their strength in advance

One simple way to avoid this "problem" is to put a rating cut in your challenge (> 1501 or < 1499, whatever you fancy). But doing that for this reason is quite selfish, as these people have to play someone tot get a rating, don't they?

And you might play them in their SECOND game, where their rating is determined by the rating of the first player they met, so you just shifted to a different problem anyway... but here's my 2c anyway.

EDIT: if it helps, consider than when you play a player with an established rating someone has done the "dirty work" for you. So you might as well do it for the community as well!

Enjoy playing here, and do not bother too much about engine users. They're many many less than you think they are ;)

In reply to #2:

lichess doesn't mind mentions of competitors. Everyone can publicly compare lichess to chess.com, chess24.com, chesstempo.com, gameknot.com... and all the others.

We're not afraid of competition: we embrace it. People should be allowed too make informed choices.

Links are what the Internet is all about. Use them!

wow!

How to find the cheaters when nobody ever plays them?

I estimate most of my recent losses were against cheats. Sometimes I lose since I listen the book reader while playing. They espessialy rampage at slow controls. Person rated 1550 in blitz routinly wining against 2k and 2200 sometimes at classical.