What does rating have to do with class?
Wow! A 1900 player pulling rank. Get over yourself, pal. Nobody knows you.
OP is right, he should be named and shamed. He has brought the noble game into disrepute with his ungentlemanly conduct. One must learn to win with gracefulness and lose with dignity. Difficult for American cads and boors to understand this though. 
Maybe write a grease monkey script to load the game into an engine, and if the evaluation is very bad for a player, have grease monkey sent draw requests automatically ?
On a more serious note, I agree with OP. There seems to be many players on chess.com that immediately offers draw when their position becomes very bad. Why? Why not just resign?
I am 1800 level and that gives me authority to step in and arbitrate this dispute.
OP is correct. His opponent was abusive.
lol at this high rank authority stuff.
It probably is unsportsmanlike. Maybe chess.com should implement a system where you can only offer to draw 10 times and then you no longer have the chance.
I think that is not allowed. People want to make you draw because either it annoys you or makes lose on time or accidentally accept.
It's a real tough call if the distraction lies within the rules. When I was a Tournament Director, I would have warned someone in a lost position offering a draw again and again and again to stop offering draws as long as he remained in a lost position on the penalty on my declaring him the loser, but there's no one to give a warning online.
The one thing that's without question is his being a jerk.
Sometimes, though the jerk is the guy who doesn't take the draw when it's clearly a draw.
One year in the U.S. Open, I had a drawn position against a player rated 300 points higher than me and you could see on his face that he was disgusted with himself for not beating me. I offered a draw a few times and he wouldn't take - he kept dragging the game out and I'd offer a draw about every 10 moves until we had played for nearly 5 hours, when he finally agreed to a draw.
I think that is not allowed. People want to make you draw because either it annoys you or makes lose on time or accidentally accept.
lol at this high rank authority stuff.
It probably is unsportsmanlike. Maybe chess.com should implement a system where you can only offer to draw 10 times and then you no longer have the chance.
I don't think that's necessary because you can decline the draw by simply moving. Years ago I played chess on Pogo, which was an awful site for chess. If your opponent offered a draw, you couldn't move without first rejecting the offer. It did allow you to click yet another button to prevent subsequent draw offers. But in bullet, that could cost you the game. Not surprisingly, unscrupulous players would take advantage and make one draw offer after another in an attempt to win a lost game on time.
You believe in ethics? What is wrong with you?
I think most will agree it was inappropriate and abusive, so this thread won't be a revelation.
However, this thread may prove worthwhile if we can establish the precedent that higher rated players have the authority to arbitrate disputes or issues of lower rated players. There's no enforcement mechanism so we just need to all agree and accept this for it to work well. What do you guys think?
I think most will agree it was inappropriate and abusive, so this thread won't be a revelation.
However, this thread may prove worthwhile if we can establish the precedent that higher rated players have the authority to arbitrate disputes or issues of lower rated players. There's no enforcement mechanism so we just need to all agree and accept this for it to work well. What do you guys think?
I'll give the self-important scicillianmate the authority to shine my shoes.
Maybe he just thinks it's the Resign button he's clicking. And he just clicks it repeatedly wondering why it's not working.
Hey stop that, that's ratism. Don't be ratist.
