KGS admins do a great job
I was watching a game between a couple 6 dans when a [6d?] started making stupid comments. Checked his profile and saw he had played just one game against a fellow German client user who was [1k]. Checked out the game and it's fishy. I instantly figured rank booster...
Anyway, I log in again a few hours later and check the status... This time he has won a ranked game against another fellow German client user [2d?] and is now [9d?]. Wouldn't ya know it, the [2d?] guy hasn't played a rank game since he played one against the aforementioned [1k] a month ago.
In fact, when I was checking out his account, he was rank boosting another account up to [9d?]. I hate rank boosters with a passion. They're worse than sandbaggers and even escapers. Sandbaggers at least is giving free lessons to weaker players. When someone escapes, you know you've won. Way better than those who keep playing on either trying to win by time or your lack of concentration (of course some escapers do this first). Plus, escapers eventually escape one too many and you get the win anyway. Rank boosters on the other hand are worthless to everyone. They're basically trying to get a free lesson from higher ranks (if they have the courage to play any) or they're messing around on kibitz misleading weaker players.
I go to tell a Super Admin about it, opening up a private chat tab, but glue's already looking at the [1k] vs [6d?] game! A few minutes later, all 4 accounts are either [?] or [-]. Great to see an admin doing a fine job on KGS.
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