Rage quitters

@Youcandothis
I'm in complete agreement with you
I simply don't understand why the people who run the site let abandoners get away with it
It does indeed seem to be a problem more for people with lower ratings (like me)

I just take the time left to feel the sweet taste of victory. Oh god, that is so good. If he leaves me with 20 minutes or so, I take a glass of wine, sit in front of computer, look at the board and just let the feeling go. It is so good to know that my opponnet is in rage or denial, it makes my victory sweeter.

@gabrr82
lol, awesome perspective

I completely agree with you guys, more action should be done against leavers. At least, drop timeout to a 30 seconds maximum. My last rage quitter, today, left me staring to his grey bullet for almost 2 and a half minutes, in a 5 minutes game, before the "claim victory" option popped out. That's too long!

I haven't had this happen (yet) but have a question.

When they quit and leave you sitting there, is there a possibility of them reconnecting at some point and making a move, such that - if you weren't actually sitting and watching the whole time - they might catch you out by running down your clock? Or is there some way to avoid this?

@BasedBishop Rage Quitters can’t start a new game if they left a game before there time runs out it will say join the game or resign the game if they try to start a new game. You could always just report them and they will probably get banned.

Hope that helped, @Chess_Person2018

Hello there,

I've opened quite a similar topic regarding these "rage quitters" 2 weeks ago:
lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/feature-request-filter-players-in-lobby-by-game-completion-rate

I suggested to add a possibility for the players in the lobby to filter matches by their game completion rate e.g. don't show players with less than 90% GCR (game completion rate). In my opinion this fixes a lot of trouble since every player can decide himself whether he wants to play other players with low GCR or not. I'd even say this won't be that hard to implement for experienced developers since the filtering mechanism is already present.

@ClujMahal Your suggestion has been made several times in the past. I don't see, what it could fix.

On the left hand, nobody loves to play against leavers or rage quitters.
On the right hand, it happens from time to time, that someone must leave a game (hardware problem, connection problem, not knowing, that the resign button must be pressed twice, ...)

As a consequence, every player must accecpt a certain number of games, where he is left alone on the board. This is a kind of a duty like paying taxes. As little as states allow their tax payers themselves to decide, how much taxes they want to pay, as little should lichess allow their single members to decide, how much of this duty they are willing to accept.

@sheckley666 We're not talking about occasional rage quitters, rather about the excessive ones with game completion rate way below 90%. If we managed to stop at least those excessive players then we went a step into the right direction. Of course we can't stop it once and for all. But that's certainly not what we're demanding. The only thing we demand is to stop consecutive behavior.

The things you're comparing have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Every single player may decide himself whether he wants to play players with low GCR or not. There might be also many players that aren't bothered by leavers at all. So they simply don't need to touch the filter at all.

It is quite a different discussion, how much of leaving should be tolerated. I am only commenting the suggestion that everyone should be allowed to decide himself how much he wants to accept.

It is - sorry - utter nonsense to believe, that there are people who are not bothered by leavers. This is the same as to believe, there might be people who don't bother about their taxes.

I strictly reject the idea that those who complain loudly about every burden should be exonerated to the detriment of those who endure silently.