"Member Account Closed" and rating

So I check in to find that a game in which I have a slightly worse end game is over because my opponent resigned. Why did he resign I wonder? It is a tournament and he has already qualified by winning his other games so maybe he was bored with the game (so was I as it happens) but still, why not offer a draw?  Now my biggest "win" (he outranked me quite a lot) is totally fake which is a bit irritating.

Maybe I can send a message thanking him for our games and asking why he did not offer the draw?

Ahhhh. "Member Account Closed". So now I know what has happened.

But my "biggest win" is even more fake than it was before. And my rating has jumped quite a bit for no reason to do with my own play or that of my opponents.

So I wonder whether, when someone's account is closed, would it not be better if their current games were voided rather than awarded to opponents?  I accept that the site cannot tackle the Herculean task of going back through previous games to make adjustments to ratings but I doubt there is much effort involved in just voiding current games rather than awarding wins. Less work in fact.

What do others think? Would it be more galling to someone who had brilliantly got a winning end game against this guy to lose their efforts? Or am I right to think that just voiding current games is the better course?

They could offer the remaining user a choice - win or draw or lose!

Good idea.

He resigned before he left (showing you a kindness), otherwise the game would have timed out. Difficult to change games that are no longer in progress.

your opponent was banned for cheating, must have been warned or something and had chance to resign their games

Yes their login name appears in the cheaters' list. I had assumed that chess.com's programming awarded me the win but I rather think that does show up as timed out so perhaps it was the person themselves. Slightly odd thing to do, if so. But who knows how such a person's mind works.