When you set your settings to a certain ratings spread, you told Chess.com exactly who you do want to play, so the system is only following the commands you inputted.
If you then attempt to not go along with what you said you wanted, you can't fault Chess.com for creating a system that gives you what you said you wanted.
There are certain circumstances where the OP has a valid point... for instance you join a game, you land as White, so you make your move... and then get to sit and stare at a screen for 20-30 minutes as your opponent doesn't make a single move. Had this happen recently and had to have staff abort the game for me so as not to get penalized.
If your opponent doesn't make a single move, then their clock ticks the appropriate amount of time until the game is ruled abandoned and
you are awarded the points, not penalized.
I sat there quite a long time waiting for him to make a move before contacting staff so they could force an abort. He disconnected and reconnected right before what I assume is the time limit to abandon a game (isn't it like 5 minutes?)
Yes. The screen will usually say something like, "your opponent has disconnected...they have five minutes to reconnect."
If they don't reconnect, you are awarded the win and the points.
When you set your settings to a certain ratings spread, you told Chess.com exactly who you do want to play, so the system is only following the commands you inputted.
If you then attempt to not go along with what you said you wanted, you can't fault Chess.com for creating a system that gives you what you said you wanted.
Nonsense, I never stated any of that. There are times when I just don’t feel to play certain player. I know I can block, but for example, I really have a thing with playing players from Philippines. Don’t ask why I just never have a decent game with them, so I like to abort. But if we were to follow your logic then fine, I say Chess.com should allow region filtering as well.
Under that logic, if everyone used regional filtering, before long you'd be hard pressed to find anyone else to play that matches His Majesty's preferences. Are you telling me you'd show up to a tournament, find out your opponent is from the Philippines and raise a fit with the tournament director that you can't play this person because you never have decent games with them (read: probably get your butt handed to you)?
When you set your settings to a certain ratings spread, you told Chess.com exactly who you do want to play, so the system is only following the commands you inputted.
If you then attempt to not go along with what you said you wanted, you can't fault Chess.com for creating a system that gives you what you said you wanted.
Nonsense, I never stated any of that. There are times when I just don’t feel to play certain player. I know I can block, but for example, I really have a thing with playing players from Philippines. Don’t ask why I just never have a decent game with them, so I like to abort. But if we were to follow your logic then fine, I say Chess.com should allow region filtering as well.
Really? Because my impression is people from the Philippines are good at blitz.
I think you may have meant to say "they always hand me my ass in a bag, so I abort to avoid the humiliation."
Let me know if that sounds about right 
Here is the simple reason...to stop people from aborting when they get black pieces.
My experience with aborts has always been the black pieces aborting the game, never white. (Can anyone on staff provide a percentage on games aborted white/black?)
An obvious reason for this is many players would try to scam the rating system by only playing as white and within certain rating thresholds (ex. Ok I'm white AND my opponent is under a 1000 - Patzer Attack, here I come!).
Anyway, don't you only get dinged on aborts if you abort like 2-3 games in a row? Who would ever need to abort that many in such a short time frame?
When you set your settings to a certain ratings spread, you told Chess.com exactly who you do want to play, so the system is only following the commands you inputted.
If you then attempt to not go along with what you said you wanted, you can't fault Chess.com for creating a system that gives you what you said you wanted.
Nonsense, I never stated any of that. There are times when I just don’t feel to play certain player. I know I can block, but for example, I really have a thing with playing players from Philippines. Don’t ask why I just never have a decent game with them, so I like to abort. But if we were to follow your logic then fine, I say Chess.com should allow region filtering as well.
Really? Because my impression is people from the Philippines are good at blitz.
I think you may have meant to say "they always hand me my ass in a bag, so I abort to avoid the humiliation."
Let me know if that sounds about right
No one is handing my ars, they are strong but always gor for piece exhange not dynamics, so no it does not sound about right,
thank you for comming tho ;)
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Your policy on limited game abort is silly; since your server will kick the game off if no-one makes a move why have a limit?
You state fair policy, well if anything it isn’t fair to those that want to abort. I should be allowed to decline, abort, (or not offer rematch ;p) as many games as I see fit. Forcing me to play someone I do not wish to play is actually not fair to me.
So give me a logic reason why you have this feature? – because your fair play policy reason isn’t good enough.