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Proposing a feature to address players intentionally wasting time

@forsoothplays This isn’t about debating a specific anecdote (that’s your question)—it’s about addressing a recurring issue that players experience on LiChess. Stalling in lost positions is a common abuse of the platform, and an automatic resignation system would align with fair play principles seen in OTB tournaments, where arbiters ensure games aren’t unfairly prolonged. The focus should be on improving LiChess policies to prevent this behavior, not fixating on one specific example.
@Fittrader said in #41:
> Stalling in lost positions is a common abuse of the platform
In most cases, the stallers will stall until loss, and this case is dealt with.

@Fittrader said in #41:
> where arbiters ensure games aren’t unfairly prolonged
An assertion doesn't become true by endless repetition. Can you give one example of an OTB game where the arbiter stepped in?
I am an international arbiter and I can assure you there is no such rule. As long as a player having the move doesn't leave the playing venue and isn't distracting the opponent they may use their time as they see fit.

This absolutely includes spending an hour for one move.
Everyone has experienced this, and it isn't even that rare. I would say it is abused quite a bit. especially in anonymous play. I see nothing wrong with a warning after a long period of inactivity which you have some time to click (indicating you are still participating). If you go to the bathroom, don't you take your phone with you? (unless you are in an OTB tournament, lol).
fuxx_de said:
>I am an international arbiter and I can assure you there is no such rule. As long as a player having the move doesn't >leave the playing venue and isn't distracting the opponent they may use their time as they see fit.

>This absolutely includes spending an hour for one move.

@fuxx_de to your comment: How do you know if someone is nolonger present in online play (as you can clearly verify with your own eyes in OTB games)? If there were a message sent to the player asking for confirmation that they are still there and thinking, that would be a way to confirm their presence. It is in this sense that the OP's proposal tries to introduce the idea of "leaving the playing venue" of OTB play into the online setting.
But there is something like that at lichess.
If you leave the site lichess detect this.

So I don't see your point.
So, it never happened to you that you were playing a game online and once it was an obviously losing position for your opponent they stopped moving and let the time run out? How do you know they are even still looking at the game? They open another browser tab and play a different game, or they just do something else. I have lost count how many times this has happened to me. And i am sure others here know what i mean. Currently, it is the player who remains actively engaged whose time is wasted. How does it hurt you to confirm your presence by clicking a message? If this is done in longer time formats, where the message takes little of the users time relatively speaking, then i see no problem with it.
Of course that happens to me but it's the opponents right to use its time. So I'm chilling.
On the other hand I'm playing a hybrid tournament within my chess club. Time limit is 90 min + 30 seconds increment OTB and online.
If there would be any chance of a message or pop up asking me if I'm active no club player would play these games on lichess.
If you take your time - and you are not a time waster - than there are few things as disruptive as a popup over the board and a message would be totally ignored by me.
If you have the option to transition your game into a pawn endgame you should absolutely try to calculate the whole pawn endgame. I sometimes take 20 minutes just for that (if I have the time). So thanks but no thanks.
The system is bonked. Just had a game that was totally fine, I'm 100% sure my interlocutor did just legitimately lose on time judging from the way they played. But they got a warning.
Yet when people actually waste half an hour in a forced checkmate but do one last move it doesn't say anything about a warning.

Just trying to report this, please don't be offended. Take it or leave it.
> If there would be any chance of a message or pop up asking me if I'm active no club player would play these games on lichess.

I can see your point. It is a disturbance. But its a difficult situation. There are certainly people who leave games online and let the time run down when they are clearly losing or even just one move from mate. This is equivalent to leaving the premises of a tournament in OTB. Your concentration during a long online game is certainly worth something, but so is the time of someone who waits for the time to run down because their opponent left the game.