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Rating games abusers and game seek ranges

There are many people, who intentionally play only with lower rated opponents. Their reasons might be different, but mostly those people do it to please their ego, on expense of other people. For example, look at this guy: @cesarcavalli Almost in every game he is a huge rating favourite, which means mathematically he should win a lot of games. His win/lose ratio is unbelievable for player of 1700 rating.
Obviously, the aforementioned player joins games with weaker opponents on purpose. But there are people, who simply press 1 button and play, these people fall victims to the abusers.
This is a very serious problem, because there are too many abusers with GM stats, but with noobish rating. Losing might be very depressing, people will eventually get bored after multiple loses to those abusers. Bored people will eventually leave the site.

This seems to be the problem of Lichess, because defaults for seeks are 800-2900. Most people simply do not change it, they just press the Play button. Lichess needs to deal with this, by introducing dynamic seek range, that will depend exclusively on the seeker's rating. (-50/+150, -100/+100, etc). As far as I know this is already implemented on chess.com.
Abusers are ruinous in a long run. What do you think?
Intentionally playing only with lower rated opponents is not an abuse.
And what do you mean about "here are too many abusers with GM stats"?
GM stats = skilled player who is stronger then average field. If you play with equal opponents you will mathematically end up with 50%.
let them be. how could they annoy you?

Rating on lichess are fairly useless.

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