1200 Rating in Chess.com

So, is it true that a rating of 1200 on this site in long "live" games or "on line" (correspondence) games is akin to about an 800 FIDE rating?

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Unless they changed the rating system more since I last checked, an 800 FIDE rating doesn't exist. A 1200 on this site is basically a beginner, because the majority of people who make a new account on chess.com are beginners, start with a 1200 rating, and go from there. I think the ratings start to stabilize a bit over 1700, with 1700 corresponding to a rating of perhaps 1400 in USCF or FIDE (I don't think there is a big difference between USCF and FIDE ratings below 2000). It's hard to quantify 1200 as any federation rating as it's the rating you're assigned when you start on this site.