[cmeacham98]

Where did you experience rampant cheating? I don't remember any particular problems back when I played on ICC in my middle/high school days, and modern equivalents like chess.com and lichess seem to do a relatively good job at catching cheaters. I might have just gotten lucky though.

[mpol]

I never notice cheaters too, but I only play around 1500 FIDE rating. The cheaters are around 2300 FIDE or even higher.

[V-2]

I'm of similar strength, and I have occasionally been informed that some account got banned for cheating (you receive a notification because the system restores your lost rating points after that).

But it's definitely affected less than 1 in a 1000 games for me. Of course

I might have still gotten beaten by cheaters that went undetected of course, especially if they stopped cheating or lost interest in the whole thing leaving the site before they'd get caught.