Chess.com should consider un-sportsman-like conduct penalties. For example, it should be quite rare that someone loses by their time expiring. With 3 days to make a move, you should be able to get the mouse arrow over to the resign button in plenty of time. A user should be given a poor sport point for letting their time expire. Other threads have mentioned "vacation abuse" in various forms (delaying the end of a clearly lost game). It would be nice if chess.com could find a way to automatically determine poor sport behavior and give out poor sport points for it. Accumulate enough points and you'll start to receive penalities such as a restriction on the total number of games you may have going, or the amount of vacation you are allotted.
In a perfect world we'd all be perfectly reasonable about how we use the features. But there are clearly holes where bad behavior can sneak in and serious thought should be given to potentially policing this. In the end, it's for the benefit of the vast majority of users that we don't have a tiny fraction of people ruining a lot of people's day.
What is the view of a member who
- has over 100 games going
- makes perhaps 6 - 8 moves per game
- goes into vacation mode for the fully alloted period time
- within an hour of the vacation expiring, comes back but makes no move
- allows the time to expire again
- resulting in a continuum of lost games due to time outs
- but does seem to play one or two of the 100+ games selectively
- and continually adding new games
There may be logic here but it's the type of player I'd like to avoid - any thoughts on what the objective may be?