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Feature request: Option to only get matched with players with completion rate above 80%

I’m tired of people abandoning losing games and making me waste my time waiting. When people abandon games, I usually check their profiles while I’m waiting and a lot of them have game completion rates below 60-70%. Many of them have hundreds of games played so clearly the moderators are not banning these players (I always report them for trolling, have never gotten an answer from a moderator). Since this problem is rampant on Lichess I understand the moderators don’t have the time to fix this. But giving people the option to set a minimum game completion rate for players they are matched with should be simple. You are already matched against players of similar rating by the server. Being matched with players based on completion rate should be an easy option to implement and it would certainly improve the community on Lichess.
What about those who genuinely disconnect, maybe due to wifi or other more serious conflicts? There are a ton of exceptions to consider tho. How would you address such?
I think people who get disconnected on more than every fifth game are pretty few. Also, I’m not suggesting these players get banned I’m only suggesting I have the option to not get matched with them.
"What about those who genuinely disconnect, maybe due to wifi or other more serious conflicts?"

If this is happening every fifth game then they probably don't need to be paired with people who actually want to play a chess game to completion, though.

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