I love playing chess as often as reasonably possible, which includes during road trips or in areas with shoddy internet. This puts me in a difficult situation though, as I don't want to spend too long playing a 30 minute+ game, especially if internet drops for the rest of my time and I'd also prefer not to neglect my friends for more than 10 or 15 minutes at a time. Thus, I defer to playing bullet. The time format that, while I take seriously, I'm not as perturbed over losing rating in due to bad internet. My internet came back online after a hike, so I took the risk on this last game and my connection dropped for about a minute and a half of my 2 minutes. I played badly, as my opponent had time to think during my connection lapses and I lost on time. Perhaps instead of losing the typical amount of elo, one could lose half the amount in such cases? It seems quite cruel to punish player's hard earned rating gains over bad internet and especially so for people who live in areas with poor internet who have no control over it.
Something like that would allow players to fake internet connection issues to decrease rating loss.
I love playing chess as often as reasonably possible, which includes during road trips or in areas with shoddy internet. This puts me in a difficult situation though, as I don't want to spend too long playing a 30 minute+ game, especially if internet drops for the rest of my time and I'd also prefer not to neglect my friends for more than 10 or 15 minutes at a time. Thus, I defer to playing bullet. The time format that, while I take seriously, I'm not as perturbed over losing rating in due to bad internet. My internet came back online after a hike, so I took the risk on this last game and my connection dropped for about a minute and a half of my 2 minutes. I played badly, as my opponent had time to think during my connection lapses and I lost on time. Perhaps instead of losing the typical amount of elo, one could lose half the amount in such cases? It seems quite cruel to punish player's hard earned rating gains over bad internet and especially so for people who live in areas with poor internet who have no control over it.