Abandoning instead of resigning

Oh, totally agree with that one. If you're going to leave a game, resign it. It's a matter of politeness, as well as letting you get on with the next game.

yeah i am not going to lie i hate this kind of thing but as has been said many times already you should report them for stalling. I personally feel chess.com does a decent job of dealing with these kinds of issues all things consider. it is not something that deserves an immediate ban for an isolated incident but maybe a polite warning about their behaviour. i am not gong to lie i burn up a lot more time than usual when i am in in losing position. To my opponents it may seem like i am stalling but i am genuinely just trying to lay some tricky trap that can maybe save a draw or pull a win from now where. I have had opponents that want to play all the way to the check mate and burn a lot of time too but i feel like that is their right to do so and if they can come up with a trick that could possibly lead to me blundering a draw that is ok. or even if they want to treat it like a puzzle and find the best way to proling the check mate that is ok. it will show in thier time out stats if you want to reduce the amount it happens you can start tournaments that dont allow people with high time out defeats. This is obviously easier to do in daily games than bullet or blitz but still possible.

@prasanth-sharma why u even stalling bro?

For those who keep doing that frequently, why is there no "resign immediately on abandoning" rule?

Should be "Resigned (game abandoned)"

Right, and the point is that it happens immediately, no long waits for the poor opponent.

Related to this, once upon a time when chats were by default open, most players, win or lose, would sign off GG and move on. Of course, there were some who chose to be rude/unsportsmanlike, but it was rare. When I got back on this site a few years ago, I noticed chat was something you had to open. So I did, and I have to say the comments (win or lose) at the end of the game were 70/30 insults. Now and then I will myself send GG after a loss or an especially challenging win, but rarely get the message accepted. And I understand why. It's a shame, frankly.

Instant resign if abandoned would make sense (though I'm prepared to bet there will be people who find their unreliable wifi causes them to have resigned-by-abandoning where they could currently log back on again quickly and hope!).

@zakdelaro, you're fine! Spending half your remaining time in a lost position looking for a sneaky trick to snatch a draw from the jaws of defeat is perfectly sensible and above board. Opponents forcing me to play to checkmate is also their right, and frankly I'm not very good at it (I get bored, can't be bothered, or mess up in some trivial way, so it's quite a good strategy to win, if that's what they want!)

There whole strategy with it is to basically stall the game. Sometimes players get really annoyed and just resign the game, so its rage-bait basically.

Yes thank you. In summary actual stallers is extremely unsportsmanlike and should be stopped. Got to send the reports to get it stopped though. the whole system relies on people reporting it. You can never tell how old or how experienced people are. There is possibly people (as i i have read in couple of comments here) that think it is a genuine clever tactic when it isnt but there will also be those that know they are dong wrong but dont care. it is hard for us to tell who is who but the site knows who has had prior warning and who hasnt.