I want to know, how do I avoid playing bots?
It seems that there no easy or obvious way to avoid bot matches. Everything I have tried seems to result in playing a bot most of the time. I find playing bots boring. They mostly buy treasure and can usually be beat with more advanced strategy. They never do anything brilliant. In short I just don't feel challenged playing them, and I don't care about winning or losing to a bot.
I'm also looking for my rating or rank on here. It does not to be displayed anywhere nor can I see the ratings or rank of anyone else. Is this information to be found anywhere?
You can only get a bot match by clicking bot match in the matching tab or when you click ready at a table while not enough players are present at the table. If you use quick match, good match, or wait for enough players at a table before you click ready, there should be no bots added.
Ratings are not available yet, see here: http://forum.shuffleit.nl/index.php?topic=858.msg2039#msg2039