The choice is always there to resign if you are in a losing position and you feel like the mouse in the paws of the cat.
...But I think it is very unfair to oppress the chicken's right to complain about the soup.
Not resigning and annoying to boot
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if the chicken can complain, it isn't soup.
I tend not to participate in this kind of thread (and if I did, I would have to make a dozen entries a day), but I wonder how many people make use of the "disable chat" option in cases like this. After all, it's one thing to have an opponent moving slowly in order to annoy; but it strikes me that you don't actually have to listen to any abuse. Your opponent can complain, but you're wearing figurative earplugs.
Though a determined opponent could probably message you instead of using in-game chat; and I'd be very surprised if you could ignore a user while you're playing him/her.
Funny thing about resigning or not resigning, I do not really care what my opponent does. If they resign a lost position great, if they play it out great. After 234 games, I thought that was pretty much the options. However, today I discovered one of my opponents had a new one. Don't resign and harangue your opponent for taking your pieces and not check mating you quickly enough.
At first I found it humorous because the intial threat was mate me or you will have to wait 3 days for your next move. (I think the joke is on him there because we are playing a one day per move game.) If it was 3 days/move, I dont mind as that is what I enter into when I play these games. There are enough other games going on that I dont really miss one game that much. However, to be in a lost position and complain about the endgame is kind of like the chicken complaining about the soup; its just a little too late.
Oh well, I post here to vent but at the end of the day its all good. Cheers.