Differences in ratings???

I play a lot at another website. I'm not sure if we're allowed to use links but imagine *nameofgame*.com...

Anyways, I struggle all the time to keep a 1400 rating there, but here I'm beating 1700+'s and holding 1600+ easily. Is there something different? I'm confused.

Side note the forums captcha is SUPER AWESOME. I WANT THIS TO UNLOCK MY COMPUTER/SMARTPHONE OR SOMETHING WOWOWOW!!!

Hi

en.lichess.org/qa/6/how-does-the-rating-system-work-on-here

I believe *nameofgame*.com also calculates their ratings with Glicko-2 as well, so I should fall into the same category????

But you-know-who.com makes you start at 1200, here you begin at 1500. It's just a specification of glicko-2 system : "If the player is unrated, set the rating to 1500 and the RD to 350".

Alrighty. So will it even out, or is 1600 ~= 1400? between the two?

Your starting rank is 1500? ; the '?' means that it's provisional, as long as your rating deviation (RD) is > 110 (starting at 350). So your starting rate is '1500, +- 700'. Your RD decreases as you play games and your rating (getting up or down) becomes more accurate and representative.
Anyway, ELO, Glicko or whatever, don't focus so much on your rating :
* it's not a sufficient measure of your chess skills
* it must be understood as a relative measure, not an absolute one

Your rating here is relative to the other players here. This does not include players on chess.com because you can't play against them here.

But, since both sites have many thousands of players, we can assume a roughly equal distribution. If chess.com uses a very similar rating system (similar glicko-2 specification and rating floor) then you could say that Lichess ratings are on average 300 points higher because of the different starting ratings.

You can see that this is kind of close to reality by looking at the rating distributions on both sites - the average rating is ~400 points higher here. The rating systems are probably a bit different, even if they do use glicko-2
en.lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/blitz
www.chess.com/leaderboard/live

you see, i'm 2460+ here

but on chess.com i'm about 2300+
on chesscube i'm about 2700+
on playchess i'm about 2300+

not sure if rating inflation has affected them

Cool stuff everyone. Thanks.

Well, the fact that the rating start with 300 points higher doesnt mean much, because as the number of games af one increases, his normal strengths of play will put his rating exactly as it would be after some time. I think on chess.com it is a lot difficult to play well simple because of the banners. Gosh i hate that!