It may be through aborting games in the first place, that you're now in Chess.com's timeout dungeon.
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It will go away once your ratio of unsportsmanlike games get to a more acceptable level.
Define unsportsmanlike
No.
WhoIsSwag wrote:
Define unsportsmanlike
Lacking sportsmanlike traits.
define a sportmanlike trait
No.
Feb 14, 2012
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Our "definition" of (un)sportspersonlike traits... 
http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/171/0/fair-play-policy
WhoIsSwag wrote:
define a sportmanlike trait
One that is like a sportsman.
You Canadians and your technical definitions - you two must both work as etymologists! 
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: “Mankind.” Basically, it’s made up of two separate words - ”mank” and “ind.” What do these words mean? It’s a mystery, and that’s why so is mankind.
Jack Handey
Feb 15, 2012
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sarsaila wrote:
This is one of the worse features of chess.com. You start a game, your opponent accepted the game but he doesn't move.You must wait several minutes to see if your opponent decides to move or not.
Why not starting the timer automatically after the connection has been established? Your opponent doesn't move? Great, he's doing this on his own time. At the end, he loses the game even if he made no moves.
If your opponent doesn't make his/her first move in 20 seconds or so, the game times out & is aborted by the server, with negative effect to the sportsmanship rating of the non-mover.
http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/171/0/fair-play-policy
If you are indeed seeing something different, it's a bug, not a feature.
Feb 15, 2012
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sarsaila wrote:
OK, but ...
Why such a complicated rule? I play a lot 1 0 bullet and I hit the abort button when I see that my opponent doesn't move for a while.
Why not simply start the clock automatically?
For one thing, your solution offers very little relief to people playing longer time controls.
sarsaila wrote:
OK, but ...
Why such a complicated rule? I play a lot 1 0 bullet and I hit the abort button when I see that my opponent doesn't move for a while.
Why not simply start the clock automatically?
Complicated? If he does not move in 20 seconds the game is aborted. How is that complicated?
Of course waiting 20 seconds is not ideal, but waiting a minute is three times as bad isn't it?
This is pretty insane. I miss the old policy of not having a policy. Now I have to wait for hours to play one game. I never left or aborted my games, but clicked the green circle, it didn't respond so I double clicked it. Little did I know out of some miracle did it pull up the games and not display them in my browser. So I'm forced to suffer your punishments implied with this policy because of a shitty internet connection at my office.
-signed, one less gentleman who doesn't plan on buying premium due to beuracratic policies.
Laggsta2 wrote:
mrguy888 wrote:
sarsaila wrote:
OK, but ...
Why such a complicated rule? I play a lot 1 0 bullet and I hit the abort button when I see that my opponent doesn't move for a while.
Why not simply start the clock automatically?
Complicated? If he does not move in 20 seconds the game is aborted. How is that complicated?
The server is supposed to abort the game in 20 seconds. The complication is...the server rarely does it that quickly.
More like a minute or two. Torture, especially if you only have a few minutes to play live chess.
I have always had mine abort as quickly as promised.
If your internet connection is that bad I can't imagine how you would play live chess at all...
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I haven't aborted any games in a while and have been restricted and I have to wait five minutes in between matches and i can not abort any games, can anyone help?