How can I get out of the bad sportsmanship pool?
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I was put into the bad sportsmanship pool for unknown reasons. Since then I could hardly start any games.This is totally unfair. How can I get out of there? Thanks.
“unknown reasons”
Jul 14, 2021
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#3
pawnbing wrote:
I was put into the bad sportsmanship pool for unknown reasons. Since then I could hardly start any games.This is totally unfair. How can I get out of there? Thanks.
https://support.chess.com/article/627-sportsmanship-policy
I guess I auto-aborted some games before move one, because the app wouldn’t alert when the games started in the background. It’s not my fault.
Searching for a game takes a long time, within 200 point range, so I do something else while waiting. However the stupid app wouldn’t alarm when the game starts, so it’s auto aborted after 20 seconds.
Jul 14, 2021
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#6
Assuming there is a "bad sportsmanship pool", and auto-aborting games gets one into such pool, waiting for your games to start and not auto-aborting would seem to be the solution.
Jul 14, 2021
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#7
pawnbing wrote:
I guess I auto-aborted some games before move one, because the app wouldn’t alert when the games started in the background. It’s not my fault.
It's not some games, but a quite a few games and based on a percentage over the last 90 days I think.
Feb 9, 2026
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#8
Probably takes long enough to persuade you to mend your ways. A week or so good behaviour would probably do in first cases.
mercatorproject wrote:
A week or so
4+ years have passed
Feb 9, 2026
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#10
Would this be a place to consider the concept of bad sportsmanship altogether? Rather than beginning a new thread? What say the community ..
Or just… don’t get in the bad sportsman pool 🤷♂️
Feb 9, 2026
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#12
As says "number nine, number nine" four years has passed.
What is bad sportsmanship?
I've an example. When you say GG and your opponent says "thanks".