05 Feb '17 10:31>2 edits
Originally posted by padgerThe number of people who are allegedly benefitting from dropping games is very small compared to the number of people who play on the level. Altering the system as you suggest, to prevent three cheaters from colluding, would require the other thousand or so players who are on the level to play out all their games to either checkmate or a draw in order to count. This is not desirable.
It would also stop people dumping games as the two I mentioned in an earlier post
one who dumped 30 games and one dumped 15 games and of course you have Lemondrop who dump 20 games in the first 6 days
If they didn't benefit by resigning games they would have try to lose them
Harder done than said
Those who are determined to lose games intentionally can certainly contrive to 'blunder' them away if they are prevented from resigning them. It's called "help mate."
No longer changing ratings for resigned games would also mean that when one found oneself in a winning position, and one's opponent resigned, the winner's rating would not be incremented -- which is hardly fair to the winner.