How does chess.com decide initial ratings?

I only counted five: eric, martin, gleason, vocal and fair are in their user names.

The eric in this topic isn't a moderator.

Why did chess.com remove the animal bots?!?

They are on ChessKid.com

https://www.chess.com/blog/ChessKid/play-new-animal-chess-bots

The site has Monthly bots that get replaced by new ones each month. April was the Earth day bots. Now it's Heist bots

what do you rate chess.com out of 5 personally I rate it 5/5?

4/5 because they removed the animal bots

If they didn't remove them then, 5/5 also chess .com needs to make the premium cheaper

why did i started at 100 elo where as new to chess is 400 ???

You started at Rapid 400 and then dropped to 100 after play. When you started Blitz and Bullet it began at the 100 you'd already established in Rapid.

I started at 100 elo

Yes.

To give more detail, the Glicko rating system tracks not just your rating, but also your rating deviation, "RD". This is a measure of the estimated accuracy of your rating. A high RD means your rating is potentially quite inaccurate, and a low RD means your rating is probably pretty accurate.

New accounts start with a high RD. It goes down as you play, and it goes up during periods of inactivity.

If you have a high RD, you get big rating adjustments to help you quickly narrow in on a roughly accurate rating. If you have a low RD, you get small adjustments to fine-tune a rating that is probably already fairly accurate.

If your opponent has a high RD, their rating might be pretty inaccurate, so you get smaller adjustments since their rating isn't really as useful for helping to measure your strength of play. If your opponent has a low RD, their rating is probably pretty accurate and therefore very useful for measuring your strength of play, so you get a larger adjustment.

Rating adjustments are also influenced by the difference between your rating and that of your opponent. If you beat a lower-rated player or lose to a higher-rated player, that's an expected result and there are smaller rating adjustments. If you beat a higher-rated player or lose to a lower-rated player, that's a more unexpected result that might indicate that your rating is actually inaccurate, so you get a bigger rating adjustment.

So this is a way to skip it then? i chose beginner then i went my way up to 1008 elo so basically this just lets us skip the efforts to 1000 elo

we need 1000 rapiid for beginners and novices