chess improvement ratings

I believe that to many people online think that their rating makes so MUCH of an difference. But on the other hand the rating can get high just from playing and playing and playing weak opponits. Some players even use to different iternet broswers to play themselves. This way they get a lot of points just for playing themselfs. Any ways this is a message concluding that just because another players ranking is high doesn't mean you should not play them. Thank you and chess.com for lestining to my oppion. Thank you for being professional.

 Its really the same- some members post like that the Chess.com rating is a big deal- personally I think this is just a nice place to play chess. It will be more value attached to it if it was OTB rating but a lot of people here don't play in tournements. I remember when there was a topic about some low rating beating a high rating, I clicked on it but then I realized its chess.com rating. Don't get me wrong- chess.com is a great site!

You can't get a high rating  just by always playing much weaker oppnents, soon the ratings point that you earn will be 1, and then eventually 0. As far as players having more than one account that's just cheating. How chess.com would catch someone with different browsers I have no idea, but even then the "ghost" players would keep getting lower and lower ratings unless they played real players  some of the time. Pretty complicated to maintain a phony rating that doesn't have any real value anyway.

It's another symptom of short-sightedness.

In search of "wins right now" they are in search of the best opening, and they end up playing sophisticated things like the KID when they know nothing about the Center Game, Scotch, Guioco, etcetera.

It's not surprising that they stall out not far down the road or end up spending lots of time trying to fill in those gaps later on.

Rating matters, I know I have done something right when it climbs, and something wrong when it goes down the drain...

-And without rating, how would you chose your opponents? Chess is not that fun if you play someone far off your own skill level.