Feature Request: Filter and/or badge for bots restricted to human-only rated games

[ComradeRamen]

Players often avoid playing rated against bots due to valid concerns about ratings not representing difficulty for humans especially on bots like Maia that are designed for human play/opponents or other unique playstyles.

Bonus: Allow bot accounts to purge bot rating to verify human equivalent rating for filters and/or badge.

Alternative: exclude bot v bot from being rated.

[ComradeRamen]

Worst Case:

Bot Account	Speed	Opponent Type	Recalculated Elo	Games used to calculate	Win Rate	Gap (Human-Bot)
maia9	Bullet	Human	1909	1,545	77.9%	+413
		Bot	1496	1,823	21.2%

[ddugovic]

https://lichess.org/@/maia9 sandbagging against other bots seems like a ban-worthy offense, or maybe Lichess can clarify its rules.

[ComradeRamen]

How is it sandbagging if the play is the exact same?

[ddugovic]

Is the play the exact same if the bot wins against some opponents and throws against other opponents?

https://lichess.org/terms-of-service

Some examples of poor fair play are provided below. This is not an exhaustive list, and is provided for illustrative reasons only. We reserve the right to take action beyond the examples of bad sportsmanship provided here, and to have sole discretion in determining what constitutes bad sportsmanship...
Sandbagging - This is where a rating is artificially deflated, such as by resigning early, losing or drawing having put no real effort into the game, against an opponent who may be an active and willing participant or a victim.

[ComradeRamen]

wins against some opponents and throws against other opponents?

Please elaborate. Where are you seeing this?

[ddugovic]

Bot Account	Speed	Opponent Type	Recalculated Elo	Games used to calculate	Win Rate	Gap (Human-Bot)
maia9	Bullet	Human	1909	1,545	77.9%	+413
		Bot	1496	1,823	21.2%

[ComradeRamen]

Apologies. I didn't mean to imply that. I believe the discrepancy is solely from differing playstyles and overall deflated bot ratings for bots that almost exclusively get their rating from playing other bots.

[ddugovic]

No worries... still, I think it is fully within Lichess' discretion to playban bots which adversely affect the rating system.

The reason I feel that way is that when I ran my own Lichess bot account, I carefully monitored my bot and immediately stopped it whenever it did anything like that, as in my opinion (but perhaps not Lichess' opinion) such behavior of routinely defeating some players and routinely losing to other players constitutes ratings abuse of some form, even if you call it "style".