Smurfing is a legal thing here but why?

This thread isn't about smurfing. The OP just has his definitions wrong.

what is smurfing?

"Smurfing is when a highly-skilled player creates a secondary account as a disguise to play against less proficient opponents. This almost always results in the Smurf steamrolling their lower-level adversaries, which might be hilarious for the better player but usually leaves their victims bitter." I don't think this thread is about smurfing though, I think it's about sandbagging.

It's not about sandbagging either.

Smurfing requires having multiple accounts. Sandbagging requires intentionally losing rating points.

This scenario of creating an account and never playing any rated games, so that your shown rating is meaningless, is neither of those things.

Stop playing unrated.

Stop making excuses for your lack of skill.

Nobody can tell if you have 2-3 accounts with other email , changeing ip , etc...

This post is not about my skill. I can have 2000 elo im still be mad if i mached someone with 2000 elo and he were actually a 2800 GM...

Its not about sandbagging.
Its about not playing in your elo for years to beat poor newbie players and haveing 18000 win and 1000 lost game , avr 93% accuracy and 80% win rate.

Thats the problem.
Sandbagging is an another thing

well yes but when they reach the low elo they only play unranked forever

I don't think smurfing is allowed

What's the point in playing unranked forever?

This isn't a problem. The amount of players over 2000 is very small compared to the actual player pool and I promise you they don't get there by playing vs 600 rated people all day...

You realize the entire point of the rating system is to enable good matchmaking... so try playing rated if you want higher quality pairing.

I dont think the OP understands that playing unrated forever isn't a bad thing, its not effecting peoples rating, so no one would care. 

If u were complaining about people who deliberately lost RATED, games, then went into weak tournaments slapping everyone up then you have a point.

But playing unrated games is not wrong, and no ones playing unrated games against much weaker opponents nonstop, thats not how it works. When u play unrated games ur opponent could be anyone. Its not always gonna be someone with a similar rating to u, because, again, rating doesn't MATTER, in unranked. 

Sadly smurfing is legal if they play unranked forever. Whats the point? Beating low rated newbies. Thats the point and thats the problem. Some people only live here to beat 20.000 newbie who has elo 600 or bellow. They refuse to go ranked so they can keep their low elo so the poor new players can even see who is the opponent. If you are a 600 and got a match with a 1700 you would just left the game OR you wanted to try beat him. Thats ok But when you got an elo 600 opponent and you got demolished because he was never elo 600 thats really not ok. Everybody should show true elo before starting any game with anybody because thats fair play. Its ok if you dont have enough mach to show true elo. But playing only unranked is an another thing

Can you actually post one of the games that you found in the last 12 hours where you apparently lost to a super strong player playing off a low rating? I’m curious. You can redact their account name maybe to comply with ToS 

I agree this practice is quite widespread on the unrated circuit. A lot of smurfs who probably have mental issues and get a kick out of beating weaker players. They do this day in, day out. There are different kinds of smurfs. Some do get a rating, and make it just a bit lower than their real rating, some leave it as provisional, some deliberately lower their rating by a lot....chess sites in general don't do anything about them. But if you ask me, they have mental issues. It's a kind of chessboard trolling.

I guess the "rated" equivalent/term for such lunatics should be...."sandbagger"?

Lol u guys keep saying smurfs. they aint smurfs if they're playing unrated games.

Crackheads dont do it for me.