Resign vs Timeout

I just wanted to know, am I allowed to resign games simply to avoid timing out? Is there a rule (formal or etiquette) against it?

Better to take on games with the appropriate time control.

Resign rather than incurring timeouts.

With a timeout ratio above 10% you cannot join the official tournaments nor most member-created tournaments.

sometmes, when you resign you lose more points than timeout,

You have to take your time, and to play your move as speed as well

I was just wondering if Chess.com would think I was cheating or something if I suddenly resigned all my games for no obvious reason (Right now I'm a bit too busy for chess).

Thanks anyways!

Where did you get this idea? I am 100% positive that this is false. A win is a win and a loss is a loss.

really? I doubt that. Only I thought a resignation costs less points than being timed out.

Well, why would it? Either way is a loss. If you are at a tournament with the black pieces, whether you resign, get checkmated, or your flag falls, it still goes on the scoreboard as 1-0.

Go to 'My Online Chess' > 'Details' > 'Show Rating Adjustment.' It shows the rating adjustment for a win, a loss, and a draw. There is no fourth number for timeouts.

There was a recent change. The help file entry has been revised to remove the reference to a minimum number of moves . Resignations affect ratings but before some unwritten number of moves a timeout does not.

See here where a player timed out but rating was not affected.

I can speculate this will deter premium members from signing up for more tournaments than they can handle.

Resign your games to prevent the timeout ratio from being too high.  I see this happen fairly often and you will be fine.

This is not recent, and it doesn't really have anything to do with what we are talking about. O-blade commented that resignations sometimes lose more rating points than timeouts. As far as I know, and what common sense tells me, this is false.

It is hard for me to tell what you are saying exactly, but since I have been on this site there has been a minimum (2 moves if I remember correctly, although I suppose it should be 3 half moves) number of moves where, before this threshold, ratings are not affected. However, this includes both resignations and timeouts and so does not relate to the previous comments.