Why I actually don't want resignation in correspondance chess

When I am the one whose losing:

- I want that person to prove the win.

- I might win/draw on time

When I am the winner:

- Checkmate is more satisfactory than resignation and win on time.

- If you don't want to play it out there's conditional moves.

It's your option- but why I don't

1) at 3/days per move playing to mate from a "won" position could take months to even a year to finish. This is especially true if the losing player adopts the "dead man defense", i.e. maxing out time per move and vacation to effectively hope your opponent gives up.

2) I am interested in the quality of play, playing out a trivial position doesn't interest me.

3) Unless it's unusual playing a mate isn't all that exciting.

4) Since I am interested more in developing my playing strength - defending a hopeless position over multiple months holds little appeal to me.

5) Personally, playing on in the hope that my opponent times out in a won position strikes me as distasteful, particularly if it is a casual game.

6) Conditional moves don't help if the position is complex enough. Maybe the OP means s/he will play out mate in 3's but when I consider a position losing is rarely at the point I see mate.

I don't fault other people for playing out a game, in OTB typically vs non-masters I will typically play until they demonstrate they clearly can win.

Here we go again....

Concession is the better part of valor.

Windows, do you mean that resignation should be removed as an option in correspondence chess?

When I resign, I am assuming that you are not a complete moron and that the weight of material forces is completely arrayed against me in a hopeless fashion and will stomp on to victory if my opponent does not have an aneurism. I don't need to see the bloody end and I don't care if you are bothered by that.  

I really don't mind what my opponent does. If I'm winning and my opponent wants to rub the abcess rather than lance it, I'm quite happy to watch him suffer. If I'm losing I'll continue to play as long as I have a plan that might turn the tables, but once I think the game is lost, I resign quickly.

Checkmates occur a lot at lower levels of play because the players don't have a good grasp of tactics, but resignations (and draws) become more common as players gain experience and they realise that their opponent is slowly grinding them into the dust, or will effectively counter any attacking move they make.

For insomniacs

Here White has no winning chances.

That I suppose is the 50 move rule kicking in... but isn't white winning in the final position?

 Rook+Bishop vs. Rook normally is a draw with the 50-move rule.

But I would probably lose it 10 times out of 10 against Carlsen.

That rook /bishop and rook endgame is one that a chess purist might like to be able to play as well as possible even though it may possibly never happen in  along life of chess ! (another one for the purist to practice without any hope of really getting is bishop and Knight against lone king - although I sub promoted twice to practice on chess.com against a player who did't really resign early enough- so that was artificial, but it suited my practice)