Is actually something done with my reports?

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sokoban
In about 50% of the games I win, the opponent walks away after the position is lost without giving up. Most of them do not disconnect, they stay online but stop playing.
This can be rather annoying, so I always report this.
But is there actually something done with those reports?
justbefair
sokoban wrote:
In about 50% of the games I win, the opponent walks away after the position is lost without giving up. Most of them do not disconnect, they stay online but stop playing.
This can be rather annoying, so I always report this.
But is there actually something done with those reports?

Yes. As a moderator, I don't directly see the poor sportsmanship reports but when people get reported for poor sportsmanship often enough, they get assigned to a special pool with others of their ilk.

We have often seen them coming into the forum complaining about their assignment.

Did you watch the State of Chess broadcast yesterday? https://www.chess.com/news/view/2024-state-of-chess-august-1

sokoban
I sincerely wish this is an automated process, as I file at least a dozen of these reports a day. If everybody would do that, you would be flooded. If this is done by hand, I don’t envy your job.
But more seriously, it would be nice to get some feedback so I’d know the reporting is not done in vain. Anyway, good to read you try to pack those players together. Play or give up, but do not walk away!
sokoban
@Did you watch the State of Chess broadcast yesterday?

Around 300k reports and 60k accounts closed each month! I had no idea.
Przypadkowo

In about 50% of the games I win, the opponent walks away after the position is lost without giving up. Most of them do not disconnect, they stay online but stop playing.This can be rather annoying, so I always report this.But is there actually something done with those reports?

50% is a high proportion. A small minority of my wins do that, but usually in that case it is game abandoned and after two minutes or so the clock runs down. I remember once a character with a pirate as an avatar walked away from a not necessarily lost position and it took nearly 20 minutes for the clock to run down. I guess it was an example of the opponent's piratical approach to chess. Naturally I reported it but it was an extreme case.

Martin_Stahl
Analytic_Officer wrote:
Accounts never actually get closed, chess.com would be silly to turn their customers away, they just tell you these made up things because we can never prove any of it . Lmao it’s genius really

Accounts are closed every day

Martin_Stahl
Analytic_Officer wrote:
That’s what they tell you

I see accounts closed every day happy.png

Martin_Stahl
Analytic_Officer wrote:
Why is it I log in to find an honest game and players at my level are cheating to no end, it’s ridiculous. Report them and nothing happens and when you do report them I think chess.com is punishing players who report because it feels like you get more cheaters crazy please do something about this so sick of this it makes chess suck

The vast majority of games are played honestly and the vast majority of cheat reports are unfounded.

Martin_Stahl
Analytic_Officer wrote:
This is simply not true, I have games where my opponents talks about how they cheat and chess.com does nothing and teases me to report and like always I do report. Nothing happens, I have multiply games where this has happened similar conversations take place and nothing. Can you explain

Your opponent is probably not being truthful. If you reported and the account wasn't closed after a few days then either

  • There's insufficient evidence of cheating 
  • There's no evidence of cheating