I am starting to think that the problem isn't people deliberately dropping games but the chess.com's servers are losing the connection. I just lost a connection on a live game but I was still able to do email and even able to access other webpages using another device so I suspect it is an internal problem with chess.com
And volcanoes.
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The issue is not timing out but people deliberately abandoning the game in a clearly lost position rather than simply resigning. Timing out happens and is no big deal but if you are playing a fifteen minute game and the opponent lets his clock run out for almost the full fifteen minutes it is rather irritating.
Someone posted here as well that they thought nothing of letting thier clock run out even on longer games when they are losing which is totally outrageous.
Exactly. There are two sides to the coin. On the one hand, connectivity issues shouldn't lead to time-outs:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/suggestions/android-browser-disconnections-cause-losses
On the other hand, bad sportsmanship should be punished if only because it's annoying. It's annoying to myself and others. If it's a fifteen minute clock, and you spend ten minutes on one move, that's almost certainly abused and should get flagged for review. Who could possibly disagree with that notion?