Yes let's bring relative sanity back and set an upper limit of oh say 1,000 games? If you need more than that, well, there might be a problem...
Is there no limit to the number of concurrent online games?
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Feb 28, 2014
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I understand what you are saying, but I do not see how what he is doing is actually to do with the number of games. He can do the same time out with 5 games right?
Feb 28, 2014
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#24
paulski66 wrote:
Probably my thread title is a bit misleading. Honestly, I couldn't care less if the guy has 3, or 30, or 300, or 3000 games going at a time. My issue was in being unable to get a game going with anyone else for hours on the Saturday night that this happened because Ramon was sitting there issuing challenge after challenge. A minor annayance, to be sure, but an annoyance nonetheless.
So, for example, the number of challenges per hour should be limited.
MichaelPorcelli wrote:
I understand what you are saying, but I do not see how what he is doing is actually to do with the number of games. He can do the same time out with 5 games right?
One user timing out on 5 games = max of 5 irritated opponents
One user timing out on 3,000 games = max of 3,000 irritated opponents
Sred wrote:
paulski66 wrote:
Probably my thread title is a bit misleading. Honestly, I couldn't care less if the guy has 3, or 30, or 300, or 3000 games going at a time. My issue was in being unable to get a game going with anyone else for hours on the Saturday night that this happened because Ramon was sitting there issuing challenge after challenge. A minor annayance, to be sure, but an annoyance nonetheless.
So, for example, the number of challenges per hour should be limited.
Yes, or like I suggested, cap the times I'll be matched with him at 2 open games at a time.
Feb 28, 2014
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paulski66 wrote:
MichaelPorcelli wrote:
I understand what you are saying, but I do not see how what he is doing is actually to do with the number of games. He can do the same time out with 5 games right?
One user timing out on 5 games = max of 5 irritated opponents
One user timing out on 3,000 games = max of 3,000 irritated opponents
yes but
1 user timing out 5 games = 5 irritated
1 user playing 3000 games and not timing out would be zero. Unless we know there is a direct and unavoidable relationship between more games and more timeouts. If one is irratated the solution is to block them in my opinion
???
People are writing in the notes on his profile, too. One guy's theory was that he was running some sort of chessbot script and occasionally experiencing server crashes. Claimed his number of games for 24/7 play would amount to just a few seconds per move -- I didn't do the math.
Even if that's the case, I can't see why a server crash would keep him down for two days. Could he be intentionally losing, selling the Chess.com rating points somehow, similar to people "gold mining" in games like World of Warcraft or Runescape? Early on in his plummeting ratings, he lost multiple games to some players. But I'm sure many of those games were indeed coincidences.
What I've written above probably amounts to a personal attack -- but seriously, Chess.com needs to get to bottom of his case and this kind of behavior in general. If the webmasters can't keep shady characters from playing here they need to at least restrict the amount of damage they're able to do.
My own story: Like hundreds if not thousands of palatan's opponents, two days ago, I was excited to be winning a tactical battle against a 1700-rated player -- and now in about one hour I'm going to win on time versus a 700-rated player.
Just block the guy and move on.
Addicted-to-Chess97 wrote:
Just block the guy and move on.
If the topic doesn't interest you, just ignore the thread and move on.
I fail to see a single reason why it's beneficial to allow someone to concurrently run this many games at a time, and there have been multiple reasons cited in this thread as to potential and real downsides.
I just don't get it.
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Ramon is down to only 94 games at the present time and his rating is down to 1,351.
I can't believe it.
I see the rest of the thread. It must have been one amazing train wreck.
Too bad he hasn't commented and said what happened.
Nov 29, 2014
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#36
I played an amazing game against Ramon just now: e4, e6... and Ramon lost on time.
Has anyone considered playing loads of games against him just to boost their own rating?
I just won my first of two games against Ramon. He timed out.
Imagine my shock...
ETA: Also, he seems to be defaulting on a ton of games, and his rating is now down to 707.
Per my post above: While I really don't care how many games the guy plays at a time, restricting the number of concurrent games would void situations like this, which are irritating for the other participants. I see no valid reason to allow someone to play as many games at once as he is currently playing.