If you observe the elo rating algo it always increases the rank of the user who stoped participating in contests.You can test it giving some example data here.
http://elo.divergentinformatics.com/
Is’nt it a unfair process.??
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The way codechef calculates the ratings I don’t think it changes for people who don’t participate in a contest. Check point 2 at http://blog.codechef.com/2010/12/27/a-surprise-in-store-this-new-year/ , this is for short contest rating I think it is the same for long contests.
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Yeah i agree with gultus .
But still his rating is unchanged where the users with submissions are down rated relativly considering with the top performers still is a plus point for those who do not participate.!
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One disadvantage of not participating is there is a chance of that particular user’s rank to go down. Example: I haven’t participated in last two cook-offs and my ranking has dropped by 10 places each time. Moreover I don’t think too many people stop participating after reaching some decent rating, in fact defining a decent rating itself is pretty difficult there is always scope for improvement.
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I agree with you @gultus may be everytime the n*m/r will add up so we had chance of loosing our ranks even .
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