The terrible habit of rage-stopping loosing games is rife on Lichess. Such bad players should be reported, and something should be done after at least a number of such reports. To the present list of four reports motives (cheat, insult, troll, other) should be added a relevant title.
At least as frequent as stopping playing, disconnection is not as bad since after a comparatively short time, the winner is given the opportunity to force victory.
I appreciate the problem doesn't mean much to blitz-players and the like, who will never have to wait more than a couple of minutes. I also understand that blitz and blitz-like games are the vast majority of games with Lichess, if only because blitz-players finish several games in the duration of a "classical" game.
But the problem is indeed a pest for all normal chess-players. It prevents players from playing "long" games that resemble real-life competition : the risk of being blocked for half an hour or even more is too great. Let's remember that in real-life competition, a player is not allowed to leave the chess-board while it is his turn to move, let alone the pressure of referee and spectators.
Maye a player too often reported for this behaviour shoul not be allowed to play "classical" games for a couple of days ? Or this behaviour could be tracked by Lichess computers, and treated automatically after a number of such occurences ?
Maybe a player credited with over five minutes should be asked every two or three minutes if he wants to resign ?
There must be other ideas...
But something should be done, definitely.
At least as frequent as stopping playing, disconnection is not as bad since after a comparatively short time, the winner is given the opportunity to force victory.
I appreciate the problem doesn't mean much to blitz-players and the like, who will never have to wait more than a couple of minutes. I also understand that blitz and blitz-like games are the vast majority of games with Lichess, if only because blitz-players finish several games in the duration of a "classical" game.
But the problem is indeed a pest for all normal chess-players. It prevents players from playing "long" games that resemble real-life competition : the risk of being blocked for half an hour or even more is too great. Let's remember that in real-life competition, a player is not allowed to leave the chess-board while it is his turn to move, let alone the pressure of referee and spectators.
Maye a player too often reported for this behaviour shoul not be allowed to play "classical" games for a couple of days ? Or this behaviour could be tracked by Lichess computers, and treated automatically after a number of such occurences ?
Maybe a player credited with over five minutes should be asked every two or three minutes if he wants to resign ?
There must be other ideas...
But something should be done, definitely.