Live Chess Lag Suggestion

I see a lot of people in live chess complaining about their opponents gaining time after each move.  Sometimes this can be explained away simply based on the game's "incremental" setting, but often it is the result of connection lag.  Unfortunately despite careful and repeated explanation by the moderators and other users many of these users suffering lag remain unconvinced and unplacated.

I think that a lot of undue frustration as a result of this could be mitigated by explicitly providing visibility into each of the a users' respective lag in a given game.  My suggestion is simply to overtly display each user's lag right on the chess board window based on their most recent move (numerically and perhaps even better graphically with dashboard type controls).

I think that not only will this provide a tool that the moderators can use to help illustrate the reasons for the time adjustments as a result of lag, but it will also help users (and chess.com provided it's logged?) to understand some of the reasons for disconnects: 

• If, throughout a game my lag is high and my opponent's is low and I get disconnected, I'll probably be easier to convince that the disconnect was as a result of my connection and not chess.com's servers/connection
• If, on the other hand, my lag is low and my opponent's is high and he gets disconnected, I'll be more likely to buy the legitimacy of the disconnect and less likely to complain.

Thoughts?

absolutely agreed. this is already on the to-do list!

Wonderful Idea! I often see a "green" bar on both sides yet the opponent briefly flashes and all of a sudden its me with fewer seconds?  Also, the Ipad sadly does not show my connection 'color', so I sit there a long time not realizing that it's me!