Warning

What a stupid warning ! (in a blitz game)

"Warning, honeybunny. Letting time run out instead of resigning will result in a temporary ban."

I had maybe 2 seconds left and my opponent "said check" and my first try to run away was impossible - so I lost on time and get this stupid warning ?!!!

Yeah, 2 seconds shouldn't warrant a warning. That's a bit absurd. Having said that, what the warning threshold before someone gets temporarily banned?

@Kohlhybrid What game are you referring to? You copied "Warning, honeybunny." which means that the warning was sent to honeybunny. The warning is visible for both players in the game chat though (so the opponent knows that action is taken against people who leave their clock running) but you haven't played against honeybunny so I'm not sure where you saw this. Can you provide a link?

"honeybunny" was just an alias, representing any name.
a kind of joke - in fact it was "Warning, Kohlhybrid...

...the topic is that warning and not to whom it was sent !

@Kohlhybrid

Oh, I see. Well, that's not the topic indeed but I felt it would be relevant if it actually gave the wrong name.

Am I right in thinking that you got the warning in this game? lichess.org/NCwlYkOV/black

The warning here didn't originate from the fact that you flagged after only having two seconds left, but because your second last move took rather long and was followed up by a flag.

Why does that give a warning? Because there are people who will leave their clock running until they have only 1 or 2 seconds left and then make their move (and flag the next time they have to move), with the idea of annoying their opponent and attempting to circumvent this warning/ban system. Checking how long the second last move took in cases like this, closes that circumvention.

In your case, you probably didn't have bad intentions, but coincidentally had a long second last move followed by a flag. But I guess that happens rarely and we cannot just remove that check because then we would miss several people who do actually leave their clock running in bad sportmanship.

Question: is it bad sportsmanship for the player with more time to leave their clock running?

Warning someone for an 18 second think is harsh - did penguin code it?

@tailuge An 18 second think in itself isn't warnable; but in a 3+0 game it's long enough to assume sitting _if it gets followed up by a flag_. In this specific case, that wasn't quite a correct assumption indeed, but mostly it would be.

@Toadofsky of course it is.