poor sport players

Why resign? It's not hard to just switch to another tab or something while you wait for the system to kick them off. You're just making it harder on yourself to get better competition by lowering your rating for no reason.

Disconnectors don't bother me at all. I can just do something else while I wait for the server to kick them off like I said. It's the folks who stay connected but just let the clock rundown and those that are in a totally lost position but play on anyway just to be a dick that irritate me the most.

Yes it's irritating but I think the irritation is that you feel the fear of blundering and losing after you clearly should have won.  I often wish opponents would resign, but really, it is their right to play to checkmate and it is your job o finish the game.  I have been up +10 or more and lost, on more than one occasion.  So sometimes I play longer than I know my opponent would like, I am sure.  If I can blunder than so can my equally rated opponent.  

I think people resign as if they were gandmasters, but at lower ratings, resigning makes a lot less sense.

I think I care about my points more than you, but the main problem with resigning for me would be to give a despicable human being exactly what he wants.  Be a dick and improve your rating? No way.  It's the principle.  

Whenever this happens, I hit the report button for "stalling" in games, block the person and post a note on their user profile explaining how they were a sore loser, so anyone else who plays him can see it if they check the profile (and can pile on with more posts if warranted) People like these should be suspended from the site.

I noticed we now have a system that does just what people were suggesting earlier in this thread. It pairs Poor Sports with other Poor Sports. Nice. 

As soon as this happened he waited me out

loool

my clock starts during the tournament but i can't move my pieces. If i play a game, the site suddenly crashes and because of that, i am banned even though the clock and site are not working 

+1

I have personally never had this and I play3min Iplayrapid irl much better

I timeout in 3|0.

After Rxd4, Rxd4+, and Kxd4, it's a draw.

If that's how you want to use your 10 minutes fine. I can watch TV or make a sandwich

To me the worst poor sport player is someone who makes a massive blunder, or is on the verge of losing and offers a draw. Even if someone only has a king against a pawn, he can still try to capture and bring a true draw due to insufficient material. If I can’t see a way to do that, then I resign. There’s no shame in losing, but why make the other person get a lower ranking by accepting less than victory? Any thoughts on that?

To me it doesn't matter. They can do what they want. It's war. A victory is a victory, no matter the means. Unless there is cheating involved.

“To me it doesn't matter. They can do what they want. It's war. A victory is a victory, no matter the means. Unless there is cheating involved.”

Sometimes a draw results in a net loss of points. To expect someone to take a loss just because I’m losing sounds like cheating.

I wasn't aware you'd lose points on a draw. That seems peculiar. It's a draw. I hate draws and stalemates

It doesn’t always happen, but sometimes it says “draw -1” or “-3” depending on your opponent’s rating.