There is no penalty, except for rating, for resigning.
"If players know how to restrict open challenges they should not have to abort."
Once "banned" a player should remove all restrictions. They have to play anyone. From GMs to people who do not know how the horse moves.
Once they are able to send open challenges they should set limits as described in post #47
Whoa! I get to play GMs if I get restricted?
Now where was that abort button...?
:)
Sorry for polluting the recent posts list with the same post over and over, but I want to make sure all interested parties get this...
Certainly we don't think users should be "hung up on" instantly once they are paired with an "abort-enthusiast," so we want to discourage that. 
But the current approach seems more punitive than desirable (or necessary). So now the plan is this:
- Make the New Game > Ratings settings more obvious, so that people are more likely to be aware they are able to specify a ratings-range for their challenges.
- Change the nature of the account restriction: Don't stop people from playing; stop them from Aborting. That is, once they go over the limit (which, btw, is based on a %) they can still create/accept Open Seeks. But they can't simply abort their games anymore (until the % drops back below the line) - games will start with a button showing "Resign" instead, with all the usual ramifications for their rating. Play or forfeit!!
Much better. 
Still working out the details, but this is coming soon...
- Change the nature of the account restriction: Don't stop people from playing; stop them from Aborting. That is, once they go over the limit (which, btw, is based on a %) they can still create/accept Open Seeks. But they can't simply abort their games anymore (until the % drops back below the line) - games will start with a button showing "Resign" instead, with all the usual ramifications for their rating. Play or forfeit!!
Brilliant solution!
But they can't simply abort their games anymore (until the % drops back below the line)
Thinking about this part, you'll likely have to require them to get their percentage a good way down below the original trigger percentage before giving back the ability to abort. Otherwise, their very next game will lower their percentage back below the trigger, and they can just keep bouncing back and forth across the line, effectively being able to abort half of their games. I think you'll need something like trigger at X% within 90 days, give back abort option when they're back down to half that rate, etc.
Maybe we could use a similar attitude toward disconnecters- the more games you abandon, the less time you get to reconnect before your game is declared abandoned, down to maybe a minute or even thirty seconds. Might be tricky to write though.
The fact of the matter is a broswer problem will disconnest you in live chess, happened to me about a year ago. Under the present rules i would have been banned because i thought the problem was with the site. Wheather related disconnects ( ice-storms) and Comcast (cable) is always good for a few "technical" problems along the way, there are just too many variables for any site to be completely fair about these particular bans. 
lol
Maybe we could use a similar attitude toward disconnecters- the more games you abandon, the less time you get to reconnect before your game is declared abandoned, down to maybe a minute or even thirty seconds. Might be tricky to write though.
How can u take away Anybody's 'right' to intentionally disconnect ? .. they juz disconnect by closing the Live Chess Window or logging off, by themselves ... there's no 'Disconnect' Button .
Normally Intentional Disconnectors don't bother to try to reconnect back .. they juz wanna make us wait 2 min for our Win instead of us getting it immediately if they resign .
So I think this solution cannot be applied for Intentional Disconnectors.
[ Time to reconnect back is meant for Unintentional Disconnection ( due to Connection Problems/Interupted ),which is not our fault.]
Maybe we could use a similar attitude toward disconnecters- the more games you abandon, the less time you get to reconnect before your game is declared abandoned, down to maybe a minute or even thirty seconds. Might be tricky to write though.
I think it would be very easy to write. Adding the necessary code would probably only less than a minute. The time you get to reconnect could be (1-player.disconnect_rate())*CONSTANT, instead of just CONSTANT.
Well if you've not been under a rock the past week, you'll notice a lot of people who have been complaining about being banned for abandoning too many games. Whether intentional or not. That's how we are currently handling the issue- there is no discrimination between the intentional and unintentional abandonment. And when the hapless person with the bad ISP goes over the limit- they're banned from playing. That makes it hard for people to redeem themselves so to speak.
My suggestion is to replace these punitive and indiscriminate measures with a much smarter, more flexible and more useful safeguard. If a member abandons a certain percentage of games, they get less time to reconnect before the game is declared abandoned. Sure it's not totally fair to the person with a bad connection. But it's a hell of a lot better than what we have now. People who abandon games for other than malicious reasons will still be able to play, and people facing the intentional abandoners will not have to wait as long to move on to the next game.
you are a whim, the opponent who like to turn the chat off probably like concentratre on the game and may chat later or not, that is fine with me.
You can't imagine how wonderful this site would be if all the "high level players" like you left. High-level players with 2400+ on blitz and 1200 for bullet :)
He got banned for cheating 7 hours ago.
http://www.chess.com/cheating.html
Wow, this makes me want to go play Live Chess.
guys have you got a brain there? I said earlier "shhh" please no talking about cheating here or this thread will get lock.
if you want to talk about cheating go here and there is a link in there for a group where you can discuss cheating
http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/124/0/cheaters--cheating-what-you-need-to-know
way to go lady.