Solution to Stallers?

So it happened again. I was ahead a bishop, then I put my opponent in the position of either losing a rook or mate in one. After the loss of the rook it would’ve been mate in 8. You know the story: eight+ minutes on the clock and he lets it run down to five seconds and moves his queen, and then flags on the next move. It’s so aggravating.

I think generally players just go to another window and watch YouTube or something and just hope you get bored and quit. Arghhhh.

What do you all think of a dialog box coming up every two minutes saying “are you still there”? If the person doesn’t click yes, they are timed out.

I know what you are thinking: it’s distracting. But is that a small price to pay? Is clicking yes (with no option of accidentally clicking no) really so bad? Right now stalling is rampant. I’d rather lose to a cheater than have eight minutes of my life waste away pointlessly and the cheater will more likely be caught and banned.

Thoughts?

This has been suggested time and again, and the answer is always the same: they have the f'ing right to use their time as they feel inclined.

It is becoming very frustrating and perhaps due in part to all the newbies. The worry is - this is all automated- run by bots. Get so many negative reports ( which can be readily made with no validity) and never actually verified. Boom - members get delegated into the “bad sport” pairing pool. I’m playing so many players who quit /stall of late - thinking of playing elsewhere. I!ve inquired if on any restrictions and informed -No. But does staff tell us if we are in the bad sport pool? It’s getting bad and then worse . I abort a few games at the start here and there - inappropriate usernames/avatars. Perhaps a few sour grapes members make a report by an easy click in the pop up after every game. Next thing we know - whammo - we’re playing quitters. If I’m going to be restricted for not playing vulgar usernames or random reports  - I’ll definitely take my $ and go elsewhere. I’ve never quit a single game - but that’s of no matter to a bot once it receives malicious reports.

No - members can not “use the time however they want”. Stalling/quitting specifically violates stated policies. The problem is enforcement is run by bots, that delegate penalties and determine whom to punish. There is no human evaluations that make consideration.

My last 10 min game the opponent let 6 minutes run off - no auto resign popped up. Absurd.

But why not just have a “still thinking?” dialog come up after two minutes? It seems like a no brained. All you have to do is click yes. If you don’t you time out after 15 seconds.

It’s less distracting than draw spamming for sure and it may help decrease the number of people just doing something else as you sit there like a fool.

Yeah sometimes that gets tough. I think some action should be taken. There are spammers on this site as well. Not everybody plays by the rules.