Abandonment prevention?

It seems that a fair number of players "ghost" the game and just let the timer tick on, and on, and on, while their 15 minutes left in the game goes to nothing. I feel frustrated because I have to sit there just waiting until it officially runs out or risk them coming on again. Is there any setting I can use to say "Take 3 mins to make your move and then time's up."
It's just such a let down to essentially win a game and then sit there for 15 mins wondering if they've gotten hit by a bus or had a house fire or if perhaps they're just a lousy sport and get a kick out of being a sore loser. Any help in dealing with this would be great. It's a peeve not because some people are like that, but because Chess.com doesn't seem to have any way for me to prevent that by having an auto abandonment after a reasonable amount of time. Or maybe it does? If so, I'd love to know how to set up a timer and prevent this ghosting cr@p.

When your opponent has 15 minutes left. Do you realize that there are some position that a person can genuinely think for more than 7 minutes out of the 15 minutes left.

That said, I have also encountered bad sport who let their time run out for reasons best know to them. Giving you a setting that allows you to determine how many minutes it will take for your opponent to move can be problematic as a person can lose a game while genuinely thinking about what to play in the position.

When you encounter someone that is stalling, report them.

Yes, of course I know sometimes a person takes a long time to think before moving. But these are different. In this past case I was up +8, with 6 pawns and a bishop to the opponents one pawn. There were two, maybe three places her king could go, and in 1 or 2 moves the game would have been over. This wasn't a case of someone just thinking so long the timer ran out. When a game is _clearly_ lost, a good sport will either resign or let the winner put them in checkmate...and you either rematch or move on. In this case, there was 15 mins left on the clock and the person just let it tick down. There could be many ways to do this: A "Are you still there?" popup that someone needs to close to reset a 3 min timer....a way for a user to set a limit on the turn...and yes, I could report the person but I don't like to, because who knows, maybe something happened and they just had to suddenly leave. I feel like I've actually played games where this happens, the timer starts flashing at 2 mins or something...just wish I could make that the norm so that I don't have to waste my time on someone who's being a bad sport.

I don't think a single report will do any harm because of the reason you stated above (maybe the person had to do something urgent). But if the person is fond of doing that, your report and that of others will be useful. Maybe if the person is sanctioned just once, the person may learn and stop stalling.

I have encountered bad sports and I have seen people leave games when there is checkmate in one and allow the timer to run out. Some people stall wisely, waiting for several minutes to throw in some random move.

The reason some people prefer to stall instead of playing on or resigning is beyond me.

Thanks for the input @UpcomingGM. Appreciate it. Just a frustrating thing. I'll feel better about reporting it in the future. Still doesn't fix the issue though. I feel like there could be something simple (again, like a "Are you still there?" pop-up, perhaps optional in the settings so that some people can opt not to use it). In my case, I'm just an amateur player and want to have a nice game of chess in the evenings...if someone takes 15 mins to think that's okay, but I want to know they're actually there thinking. If I could (in settings) choose to "Only play with a 3 min turn timeout" I would gladly choose that and hope to find others who also are able to commit to that, too.

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