people abandoning games instead of resigning

Yes, its always the same. A very few players actually resign, most of them are just waisting time or abondoning the game. Poor behaviour.

yea, happens sometimes but its nice that you can just start another game while the clock is running down or do puzzles or something. Chess.com so versatile

The community only has itself to blame. This is what happens when you refuse rematches. And if you need to justify it: Your win means nothing if you can't repeat it.

This is complete nonsense. There is no connection between the two things. And no one owes you a rematch. That's just all in your head, it has nothing to do with reality.

You remind me of that guy, who thinks people who don't rematch are scared, which is not true. Fym your win means nothing if you can't repeat it? Yeah, sure, but that doesn't only apply in rematching. Also what if we don't want to rematch? Does that affect anything? I can just find another one to play chess with and repeat my win.

It's most likely due to tilting, it's still very annoying and should be punished.

You can justify it at your low rating because you don't have the perspective of someone who has played against people rated upwards of 2k. And yes, it does mean nothing if you can't repeat it. You can get the win once, sure, maybe even against me, but twice? At your rating? Doubtful. What separates luck from skill is repeatability.

That's why you see all these guys hit 1700 and 1800, and then slide back down to 1600 over the course of a week. If your tactics only work because they're gimmicks, then they're not real tactics. But it isn't like the majority of you don't already know that, so all the more reason to continue, right?

This is why I have zero sympathy for you. You'd rather defend your poor behavior than own the consequences of it.

I block people who deliberately disconnect when they start losing so the game is abandoned after 60 seconds. I have no desire to play them again.

They can't handle losing and just walk away.

I give rematches and win again more often than not...nevertheless the whole subject of Rematches is a tired subject, argued by both sides ad nauseum on here...

It really is bad. They should implement a system where if you abandon games you get penalized in some way. Seems so easy to correct. Abandon 3 games and you get relegated in some way or get a 20 pt rating penalty.

Lichess bans people for doing that.

That happens to me sometimes as well

Great idea. I think a rating-related penalty is the way to go, if you let your clock run down - why not DOUBLE the rating loss? + or - 8 becomes -16.

As it was mentioned in #18, lichess solves the problem very effectively by automatically restricting people so that the cant play within some time, and if they keep stalling the time increases