The ELO system kills my desire to play

[Tof63]

I don't know if anyone else is like this but just seeing my ELO level get cratered after a loss, especially when the games has any luck. It kills my enjoyment of games here. I wish there was the ability to turn it off entirely and just not see ELO ever, to me referencing ELO is a ranked gameplay thing, I don't care about raising it, and I hate seeing it tallied after each game.

Knowing someone's number of games played in any specific game is enough to know If I want to play against them. I am seriously thinking about losing on purpose in my favorite games for 20+ games straight to crater it for a period of time, so I can just enjoy these games again.

Hello,
I just add a feature to hide ELO informations from games. If it can help
https://en.doc.boardgamearena.com/ChromeExtension

[RazorOz]

Surely it's easy enough to ignore ELO if you don't care about it.

You have to have some kind of rating system though, for one it helps find players of your level at games, which is an important tool at both ends of the scale, because it allows a new player to not get trounced, and allows a strong player to not play a game with a new player which often are not fun.

On top of that I imagine ELO drives a lot of competition in reality, so is a net positive for the site.