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Feedback: I think going berserk in rated tournaments warps a persons rating

I think berserking is an interesting idea/feature, and I understand that it is a person's choice whether or not they want to berserk in a tournament to try get more points, but a berserking player will have results commensurate with a player of lower rating (unless the berserking player is so much stronger or weaker than their opponents that berserking won't change the results)
And if it is desired that a person's rating is as accurate as possible a gauge of a players strength, then berserking is harmful to the accuracy of the rating system

As an example, suppose 2 players have the same rating strength, of 1800, say
Suppose that the 1st player's only games are tournament games, and the 1st player berserks every game and no opponent of the 1st player ever berserks against player 1, and suppose that player 2 only plays tournament games, and that player 2 never berserks, but that the opponents of player 2 always berserk
Then player 2 will have a (perhaps much higher) rating than player 1
Yes, it's a drawback of the berserk system.
But it's a nice feature !
It's online chess, the rating doesn't really matter...
If ratings don't really matter then why bother having them at all
"For fun"
I think a rating system has many advantages
Perhaps I am being pedantic, but it seems to me that it would be better if, until a better solution can be found, that games in which at least one of the players is berserked should not be included in the games that determine a players rating
Rating does not matter, unless it is sandbagging. @Rise said that: "...berserking is sandbagging..."

However,berserking is fun thing to do sometimes and i'm one of the players who likes it as well :)
I know,it is not.It is just a quote from Rise.

@bracenoodle A better thing in the tournaments would be that the non-berserking players get paired with each other and berserking players in the other side.I guess it would make things more fair.In other situation,let's say in ultrabullet tournament some not very good players go berserk and lose tournament points and rating to their level opponents and it wraps their ratings a lot.

So,my suggestion is to do pairing system in tournaments that allows to pair people together,who berserks every single game they can.
Next section is for people who berserk sometimes (From 1 to 99% of all games)
And another section for people who never had berserked.What do you guys thing about my suggestion?(I know,my english could be improved a little bit)
Yes berserking may be bad for your personal rating at that moment but that does not invalidate the rating system as a whole. Online rating is useful for tracking ones progress, if the player can take inflation/deflation into consideration.

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