Ok, so we have all played with the guy who disconnects as soon as his hanging queen gets taken, and makes you sit and wait for the abandoned win.

But I just played a jerk who disconnected and reconnected THREE times over a period of seven minutes (out of ten) and never made a move. If I could reach through the internet and throttle him, I would.

Chess.com, YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE PEOPLE! A rating system, a per move time limit, or something!

Flama you did this in one of our games lol

What a coincidence - I was just thinking the same thing about you. 

No no no. I have never, EVER deliberately disconnected, or stalled. Ever. I'm here to play chess, and I take my losses like a man. I think a cursory review of my loses, both live and online, shows that I resign when appropriate.

Now, my connection is spotty once in a while, depending on god knows what. But I always come back and finish. I do not have a single loss by abandonment. Hell, I'd be stunned if I have more than three losses on time in live chess out of somewhere like a thousand games.

it's been suggested that each player have a "sportsmanship rating", or something like that. 

I know. I'm all for it. I understand staff doesn't want to be full time sportsmanship referees, but I think they should implement the rating system. Let users filter seeks to weed out people with bad ratings.

why do you think the guy that disconnected and reconnected 3 times in one game did it in purpose?  Why would he reconnect?  Maybe his anti-virus software updated itself, maybe his wireless internet got cut off by his wireless phone (mine does), maybe any number of things.  Did you win?

Eventually yes. And I know that it is possible for disconnects to happen. But his connection seemed to be running fine before I took his queen, a rook, and a bishop, and lost nothing in return.

And it isn't just this issue. We all run into the abusive chat guy. It would be nice to be able to avoid poor sports.

I think this is something we just have to live with when playing online. People are at work, have bad connections - or might just have to log off so you do not hear all the bad words they say when you take their queen....

My self I do not have any timeouts, but we just have to respect that some people do get them. If they get a lot they will not be able to join tournaments, that will be their loss.

Take a coffee and enjoy another game while waiting for the strange once! (But I didn't understand what God's love had to do with this... does he have lots of timeouts?)

abusive chat guy is a different issue.  And I do think if the guy reconnected twice in the game that the disconnects happening after the material lose was a coincidence.  I don't see why he'd reconnect (or how actually, when I've gotten disconnected from a game it just reconnects me to it automatically).

"If I could reach through the internet and throttle him, I would."

Fine sentiments, indeed. If only I get get my tiny pincers through the connection... oooh! they'd get a tiny pinch.

I was using a different site to play live chess, and the disconects were much worse, I had 2 or 3 in about half a dozen games.

The "other" chess servers out there  allow you to setup matches with disconnect-and-you-lose! clauses and minimum ping responses. That ways, you remove reasonable doubt (poor / erratic internet connections)  and can be sure you're truly dealing with a timeout-jerk.

Though sitting on a move is harder to police online.  In OTB tournaments, the TD can declare a result if somebody's stalling out of spite.

Awesome. Thanks! I, as always, appreciate the way the staff keeps making the site better!

Oh boy... Well I hope there aren't many sore losers here. Oh wait what's this thread about?

ive been disconnected, so many times playing live chess that i only play online now. but when i do get a disconnect i lose imediatly!

 -_-

How are you progressing with the sportmanship feedback