> It's not hard to do this. Just requires people paying attention and caring enough.
Probably a part of local policy
Abandonment Rules Are Bad Because There Should Be a Harsher Penalty
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Mar 20, 2025
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Yeah, it was gaslighty. The excuses were so weak and persistent. I was confused. It felt like he was defending an addict family member. Like why not just acknowledge it's a fault in the system instead of pretending it's not so bad??? I'll be on this site for at least a year with my membership but I'll definitely check out Lichess. Thanks.
Lichess has harsher penalties... they will detect if someone abandons a game and issue a warning to the player immediately in the game chat. If the behavior repeats the account is restricted, and it happens quickly. It's not hard to do this. Just requires people paying attention and caring enough. Instead, what you often get is lackluster effort from people collecting paychecks. Chess.com is falling behind lichess.... Meanwhile, people on their forums / even members of the chess.com team continue to make excuses for chess.com's lackluster performance in many facets. Just look at how buggy this forum message box is.
TBH chess.com is failing in the engineering effort, I can tell you that as an engineer. All the signs are there. This is common, especially in larger companies doing IT.. it happens for many reasons but the core issues are laziness / incompetence / disconnection at multiple levels.