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

@Amanda_Nunes said in #1:
> I was playing bullet, and my opponent moved one second before he lost on time, yet still got this message. You guys need to fix this. This might make sense if he did not move because he was thinking, but he did actually move. Makes no sense.

Because they know the cheap tricks.

I speak with the "authority" of knowing why rules are in place, if anything. Going down from 35 seconds to 2 seconds has nothing to do with bullet, not even with slow bullet.

Chances are the opponent lost their connection (material is even and it's no position to stall intentionally out of spite). But as I said, it's no bother for the opponent if they don't lose connection all the time!

You should stop disrespecting and ridiculing these rules and their implementation, no more no less.

I think you should show the game.
Perhaps I'm 100% sure it makes sense.
You can't just say: I got this warning for no reason. It needs proof.

Until DeepMind comes out with psychic AI bots there's no way to know whether a player is running down their clock or legitimately just thinking and they have bad time management. So the only way to prevent people getting a warning when they shouldn't is to do away with warnings altogether.

@NaitikJerath4012 said in #13:
> I think you should show the game.
> You can't just say: I got this warning for no reason. It needs proof.

on the contrary OP is arguing for opponent instead of hself? But well of course OP could be lying. Not that we'd know

@Cedur216 said in #12:
> I speak with the "authority" of knowing why rules are in place, if anything. Going down from 35 seconds to 2 seconds has nothing to do with bullet, not even with slow bullet.
>
> Chances are the opponent lost their connection (material is even and it's no position to stall intentionally out of spite). But as I said, it's no bother for the opponent if they don't lose connection all the time!
>
> You should stop disrespecting and ridiculing these rules and their implementation, no more no less.

so what exactly is the rule? if i go from 35 seconds to 2 seconds then that is stalling? (and then we play normally and then i get a ban at the end of the game?) what if i really did decide to take 33 seconds?

wait wait wait what are you talking about exactly? why '2' ? i mean why a positive number? it sounds like this should be 35 seconds to 0 seconds...

@Amanda_Nunes said in #1:
> moved one second before he lost on time

i haven't played much bullet in probably almost a decade. what exactly does this mean please?

if you have say 10 seconds on the clock and then move after 9 seconds then why would you lose on time? or you mean somehow the move was registered after the clock hit zero (like in OTB with some DGT boards maybe?) ?

Alright, here's the game we're talking about: lichess.org/mCZb9tDS

Just look at the situation at move 30. White has 38 seconds, Black has 35. Now Black goes all the way down to 1.6 without doing anything, and gets flagged next move. Tell me, how would you FEEL, what would you THINK if your opponent lets their time run down this much in a BULLET GAME??
It's not just "bad time management". You can do that in a slower game where you have far more increment than just 1 second and avoid getting flagged. But not in bullet.

I explained my points clearly enough. You don't get a ban already, you get a warning. Literally just a warning. If you're a normal sportsmanlike player, you won't become a repeated offender.

Please reconsider your attitude and your biased emoji reactions in this thread.

@Cedur216 said in #20:
> Just look at the situation at move 30. White has 38 seconds, Black has 35. Now Black goes all the way down to 1.6 without doing anything, and gets flagged next move. Tell me, how would you FEEL, what would you THINK if your opponent lets their time run down this much in a BULLET GAME??

I would feel and think absolutely nothing. And I believe most players would do the same.

It was 30 SECONDS for a move, not 30 MINUTES. If you think waiting for your opponent for 30 seconds is disrespectful, maybe you have too much self-importance.

I don't think you have a place to say this when you never played bullet and then say it's not natural to think "what is he doing, why is he not moving, why is he letting his time run out"