This Is Killing Chess.com

This player started over 300 games and left. https://www.chess.com/member/jumpinstatue

Just look.

I've reported repeatedly. One response that looked at another player and decided there was no problem. No action. 

I've been a paying member since 2010. This may be my last year. Makes me sad to see the cheating, sandbagging, and whatever this is called. I can get fair games where people actually play on other sites.

I don't play daily chess anymore, so someone repeatedly starting games and then not playing doesn't bother me. So far I have only once been victim of cheating (that I know of). chess.com picked up on it and then rewarded me my points back from game I lost. I haven't seen sandbagging but I guess it happens. I probably don't play as many games as some though. I do lots of puzzles, lessons, and watching videos so I think I get my money's worth through that. I imagine if I played more games and I might see some of more of cheating and sandbagging, though I thought sandbagging was more of a problem if one was playing for money. We had a USCF tourney player who we thought was sandbagging. He would play poorly in small tourneys and then better in tourneys where there was money. Fortunately (and I don't know if he was confronted about it) but he quit USCF. I don't know why someone would sandbag unless there were playing for money. None of the chess.com stuff I play on has any money involved. I guess there may be some. ICC has lots of tourneys for money, but I haven't played ICC in quite some time. I do not know if lichess has the same problems. I have never played a daily game on lichess. I do not know if you can even do that.

Lichess is looking better all the time.

I just looked, and that account has timed out 767 times out of about a thousand daily games. Heh. 78% timeout rate. Is there any rule against that?

i agree really not fair the honest players who want a game not getting screwed around something should be done

He has premium. Of course chess.com won't take action

I agree. Now to rant, I've been a victim of cheating so much the points returned (hundreds) mean nothing now and it's more trouble to report cheaters. After the Hann's episode, it became clear, cheaters are going to cheat and justify it somehow if caught. I've also been denied the opportunity to play in US Chess tournaments online because of mischief and computer data misinformation that's been entered or recorded for my timeouts, I know it's internal because I show up for all my games. The program use to show me my timeout percentage ànd now doesn't it also doesn't keep those statistic timeout games recorded for review. The bottom line is.. We have no control at all until we become the administrator. The person's who are manipulating they lose in the end.

You overstate the problem. At 1600 rating, cheaters are uncommon, and they get banned really quickly. Even at 2100-2300 where cheaters end up just before getting banned, I play them like once in 50-100 games.

thats a u problem blud, ive been on cc for almost 3 years and im 1600, sounds more like a skill issue than cheaters. ngl, even tho there are quite a bit of cheaters, its not like they will get banned in 5 min