That one's on topic, right?
Seems to me you are just making a mockery of an issue that I actually take seriously. If you care to make an intelligent comment regarding "why fake a low rating to win" .....please do.
Are you interested in Fair Play or just the personal satisfaction of beating up on unknowing lesser rated players ?
I think this thread has gotten a bit out of hand, but let me say this. It is against the rules to INTENTIONALLY lose games in order to drop your rating to enter a tournament. We have in the past, and will again ban members for this type of activity.
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I'm just theorizing on how we might implement regulation to prevent these abuses from happening in the future.
Well, let me throw myself on this little grenade for a moment because I'm "guilty" of this very thing.
My rating has wildly fluctuated during my time here because at times I became depressed or what have you and have been known to resign absolutely every game I had at the time.
So my rating was hovering around 1000 and I recieved an invite from a tournament director advertising a 1100 and below tournament. I knew I had to go about recovering my rating at some point, and I agreed to enter.
I haven't lost a game thus far, and yes, in fact, it has actually been fun absolutely thrashing some of these players. I don't feel like I'm deriving them of fun, it's odd, you know - when compared against the other threads which complain of people not getting the opportunity to play against better players.
I don't think I've done anything "wrong". I've risen back to my normalish rating now, but I'm still happy to be playing these games. Not all are easy wins. I honestly don't know how you can really feel slighted by this persons genuine ability being greater than her rating reflected at the time - how else was she to raise her rating to where it ought to be?
Sounds like sour grapes to me. Are you currently second place in the tourney?
I honestly enjoy playing around the 1200~ rating range. More casual. I might sandbag in the future, who knows. At the end of the day I want chess to be enjoyable.
Haha I can't believe you actually feel slighted, slimcheffy.
I too am keeping my rating down to play in the chess.com tournament. To enter the tournament I resigned a bunch of games because I wasn't confident enough to play in my first ever tournament at a higher level. I swept my bracket in the first round (although it was not easy), which put my rating pretty well out of range for the next round of the tournament. So I figured, if chess.com bumps me up a level of play, now I feel confident enough to play in the higher levels for the next round.
In between rounds I timed out on a different tournament I was winning, lost all the games and my rating plummeted. I have intentionally been playing unrated games until the re-seeding for the chess.com tournament is finalized. Playing unrated allows me to try new opening, strategies, etc... which if I tried in a rated game, my rating would plummet anyway.
And who do I play in these unrated games? My best friend on chess.com (Jupitar) who, coincidentally, has improved his chess game dramatically since we met in the tournament. If you ask him, I don't think he would feel slighted.
So in closing, we're all just people here. Some of us have confidence issues, some of us have victim mentality, life isn't always easy. I can understand where those who may feel slighted are coming from and I hope those people can understand where people like me come from. And while there are an infinite amount of reasons why some may sandbag in a tournament or play the role of vistim, there is no judgement necessary upon each other. In truth, if there is anything "wrong" with what I am doing, that's between me, myself and I, and I am the one who has to live with myself if I take this sandbagging mentality into my everyday llife and choose to underachieve. If I do choose this, then so be it. If I don't, then good for me. The point is we should be praying for these people, not condemming them. There is a piece of the sandbagger in all of us, as there is a piece of the victim in all of us too. The Truth is; there are no victims in this world.
Making friends with Jupitar, some actual good came out of my actions. Now isn't that amazing? Never underestimate the amount of good that can come out of just being honest and aware of your own self, and then doing what is best for you. Always believe that good can come out of any situation, even if you do not at first understand why the situation itself exists. 
Oh, crap. I need to find a job or something! You guys are cracking me up!!!