The Block List

Suggestion: How about a thread where you can post people who disconnected from losing positions so that we can all block them?

Hopefully, if many of us are blocking poor sports, this will cut down on the number of games these people can get, and we won't have to bother playing them.  

Suggested Guidelines:

1. We should have to post a link to the game where the person violated FP policy so that we are only listing people with objective proof. 

How to Block Users (from Chess.com's support page):

https://support.chess.com/customer/portal/articles/1444796-how-can-i-block-another-user-

"Naming and shaming" is against the rules in these forums.  However, I know how annoying it is when people let the clock run.  Luckily you were playing 10/0, so they couldn't have wasted too much of your time.  It's really bad when this happen in 30/0.

This thread is meant as a nonantagonistic, community-driven attempt to clean up the live blitz community. The intent isn't to shame them, but to make it easier for people to be able to avoid having to play people like this. I don't see any other way to do this besides posting the user name.

Note to Staff: If you'd like me to remove this page, please let me know and of course I'll do that. I didn't see a rule against this or of course I wouldn't do it to begin with. 

Note: "naming and shaming" is listed on Chess.com's Live Blitz support page as accusing someone of cheating. I'm not suggesting that anyone do that in this thread. Just post links to objective demonstrations of poor sportsmanship and we can block them. Game abandoned or time wasting in a lost position is pretty clear IMHO. 

Looks like a witch hunt to me.

Isn't this what solitaire is for?  Let them imagine that you are staring at the board, anxiously awaiting your return, if that's how they get their jollies.  Then block them.

I for one have never lost rating points from playing bad losers. Chess.com has taken care of this problem automatically. Mostly due to my apalling working conditions I have not been a very active player recently, but I guess these functions still work and will fix the problem for you. Playing a bad loser is still playing a game until he or she disconnects, and I don't feel that I have lost the experience from playing the first 20 moves or whatever, just because I have been deprived of the joy of mating them.

I'll leave it up to staff if this is cool or not. For now I have deleted the first few posts in case it's not.  

Of course Chess.com has some measures, but if they worked well, we wouldn't see people like this so often. I'm not saying it's the end of the world, but it's pretty annoying.  I guess it doesn't matter too much to people who don't play very often, but I spend a lot of time on the site. :) 

@wanmokewan I didn't post anything bad about anyone...just provided links to games as evidence so that it was clear I wasn't just making things up. People can make their own decision from there. 

It would be nice if CC kept track of disconnection-in-lost-positions. They can add this as a "jerk-percentage" number on someones profile. That way , you can have a look at someones profile to see if (s)he is an "asshole-type"  , the type you're talking about.

Next , it would be nice if you can set a "filter" in your opponent-selection . Say you only play against people with a jerkfactor< 2% or so. Just like you can set a filter for your opponents rating.

I can understand OP's motivation. I just don't think his way of solving it is the right way to do it.

It is a serious problem and although I hardly ever play rapids , I've had my share of bad loosers letting me stare at a dead screen for minutes.

Cheech: Playing on a worldwide internet service will always leave you at risk of meeting an asshole amidst a billion people or whatever the number may be. I have spent my hours on this site playing more than a thousand rapids per year, and my overall experience is that most people behave. I will turn off tracking for this thread, although I find your aquaintance appreciable and so your many good contributions in finding interesting topics, but this one is in my opinion less interesting. Have a nice one! :-)

It looks like a witch hunt because you're singling someone out in a public medium. To me, that's no different from the people who make a thread because they think their opponent cheated.

Thinking your opponent cheated is based on suspicion, and most people at lower levels (I'm including myself) aren't in a great position to judge that anyway. Blocking people for objectively violating Chess.com policy is quite different. 

Anyway looks like the community has spoken. Looks like people aren't interested in this. 

Maybe nobody has a good solution.  If chess.com isn't going to do anything about it, I don't know what to say.  Also, a lot of people play blitz around here, and who cares if somebody lets one-and-a-half minutes run off their clock?  At least nobody said "it's their clock, they can do whatever they want to."  You usually get plenty of those comments in these types of threads.

Lol yeah anyway it was just an idea :)