The minimum number of games played parameter is the one that needs to be more sensibly applied, mostly in the 1001-1200 official tournaments because these seem to be the worst affected due to the fact that a new player joining Chess.com starts at an effective 1200 and is allowed into that tournament.  Often these players are miles better than 1200 and so obviously beat the players whose rating has been solidly in that range over a period of time.

Probably none of the players who finish a 1001-1200 tournament with a rating of 2000 have improved to that level from a 1200 base over the course of the tournament - every one of them likely entered the tournament at 1200 before completing a single game.  Players who finish such a tournament at say 1400 may have legitimately improved to that over a 2 year period though.

I have come to the conclusion that no tournament should have a ratings limitation. If you're in the low end of the range, you'll play people whose end-of-tournament rating exceeds the upper range limit and many players think that's unfair.  If you're in the higher end of the range, people think that you should be eliminated because you won some games and your rating increased too much.

the solution is obvious isnt it? players  should only be allowed to enter a low ranked tournament after they have completed a certain amount of friendly  games say 30 ,which  would give a reasonable estimate of their playing  strenghth.of course players  could still lose deliberately to keep their  grade low but hey what can you  about  those  sad sad folks?

If you don't want to be involved with an unending tournament, then join one with 100 players or fewer.

I read a few comments on how as soon as you reach a certain threshhold or rating, yadayadayada you should be bumped accordingly.  But ratings change if your rating drops do you go back down to the lower tournament and take someones palce or what?

I think entering a tournament at a specific skill/rating should remain.  I think the length of tournaments determinded by number of people should remain.  We all lead different lives and can only devote x amount of time to this online.

Only way to stop this I can see is all tournaments use initial ratings to set placement then make all tournement games unrated.