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Why does the pairing system on this site so strongly protect polished garbage players?

When I play without analyzing, I get decent quick pairing and often my rating goes up significantly. If I play a player that plays a really weak opening, like down more than 20 centipawns, and lose to a trap, and I analyze the game afterward to find what the move the triggered the trap, then what I get paired with is prominently more low rated polished garbage traps like the one I just lost to. Why does the pairing system do that? I believe this pairing practice is why ratings here a so unstable and meaningless. Can we get the site to stop this practice?
You suggest that analysing a game or not has an influence on the pairing? That seems far fetched.
I guess if your rating goes up, you get paired with stronger players.
If your rating goes down you get paired with weaker players.
Playing for traps is more prevalent with weaker players.
Just do not fall into traps.
When you analyse your games, during a tournament, the good players are driving up their score. When you return, the server tries to pair you with people that have the same score.
The people at the low end of the tournament are normally weak players who play cheap tricks. You failing to avoid these traps just means that your rating should be lower.
Can we get you to stop this practice of blaming everyone/anyone else for your mistakes?
@jonesmh It's something people these days do in every aspect of their life. Our mothers, fathers, ancestors had to fight for everything (food, freedom etc.). There was no "Bohoo, I don't get what I want. I deserve everything, but I don't want to work for it."

Learn from your mistakes and improve. there's no shortcut in chess.
Yes #3. So analyse after the tournament, do not fall into the cheap traps, and if you do, do not blame the system, blame yourself.
I believe the part of the algorithm that punish people for studying between games and building rock solid repertoires against weak trappy openings is ironically called "Fair Hook". Can someone who has a better understanding of the open source software tell me what fair hook refer too. No comment yet to date was intelligent enough to reply too. Why must people be so rude to people to dare to ask questions about how things are run?
Pretty impressive mental gymnastics going on for you to conclude that the Lichess pairing system is at fault for you falling for traps.

Also, nice of you to call your lower rated opponents "polished garbage" because you can't deal with the fact that you lost to them.

Jonesmh gave you a very logical explanation. Analyze the games after the tournament and you'll keep pace with the other players at your level.

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