unecessary aborting in live chess

They must be aborting about half their games. Because if they rematch you, they get the same color.

I suppose you could report them, and then those people who get tons of these types of reports could get flagged. In a sense, the more data the better, right? (Well with limited staff, one could argue something about signal-to-noise ratio on these types of reports, perhaps that they should be spending their time on other types of abuse, but leave it to them to give you that feedback if they want.)

There's always the "plausible deniability" defense of "but I had to go, and I aborted after 1 move. And in such a case, one would expect equal black aborts as white aborts.

Overall, in the grand scheme of things, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

@Schachgeek I thought that you get the same color if you abort. I think it's happened to me, but I could be wrong.

One additional point is that resign is the same as abort for a zero length game, from the point of view of your rating (since it's unrated). So any "fix" by the powers that be should treat resign and abort the same.

There could be millions of reasons for them to abort besides just color choice.

They could have just learned a new opening and want to practice it, they could have clicked on the wrong game, they could have to go somewhere and forgot about it, they could just decide that they don't feel like playing anymore, etc...

Even if they did abort because of color how would you know? and plus it's not even a big deal you can just go find another game in like, what? 5 seconds?

For a single game you can have any excuse you want. If a user has aborted 49 black games and 1 white game in the day, then the conclusion is obvious.

"They could have just learned a new opening". -- True. I suppose that's something they should discuss with the site, and then the site may choose to amend their policy. But if the "rules" say that this is a form of abuse (and I would imagine they should stay that way), then this user will only get to practice that opening 50% of the time, I suppose.