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WhereWhyWhen

Bit sick of chess.com lately due to idiots who disconnect when defeated. It wastes a lot of time waiting for game to be abandoned and the win. 
Then when you click on these peoples profiles you can see all the comments about them disconnecting.

It's 2014 now, most people have reliable internet. Can you seek a game with opponents who agree that disconnection = automatic lose? 

I_Am_Second

Why are you blaming chess.com for people that disconnect?

kleelof

How do you consider it a waste of time to wait? if you play a 5/0 game, you have already commited the next 10 minutes of your life to that game. Even if they disconnect, you spend less than 10 minutes there.

Maybe you should use the time you are waiting to do a happy dance since you've won.

WhereWhyWhen

Because it would be easy to implement disconnection = straight loss. ICC chess do it, but I prefer the layout better on this site. Not blaming chess.com, but played 3 games last night and all resulted in the same way, do you really think this is a good image for chess.com? 

twelchsatx

I just block people that disconnect after they got their ass beat, and waste my time.

flyingstaves

It's because some people have internet problems. I sometimes disconnect for one second, to change browsers.

bangalore2

OTB equivalent is opponent not showing up. You have never dealt with this?