Rejected Reporting Users System More In-line with Chess.com

[batfran]

This is specific, but I have found that there are a fair amount of people who rage quit. I think that this is inevitable, but of the ways I've seen it handled in games, I have found that Chess.com's is the best.

Here are the options for when reporting a player in Chess.com:

I don't think that Showdown has to be as thorough in the options, but I do think that stalling/quitting should be adding when reporting. This way, there isn't incentive to rage quit.

Thoughts?

 

[Isaiah]

PS already has report options that are very topical to common things someone might actually want to open a report for. If you'd like to suggest that we add buttons for some offense(s) not already covered under these, then feel free to do so, but "stalling/quitting" aren't against our rules, so there's no reason to add a report option for them. The timer already punishes timer stalling by design, and "rage quitting" is either welcomed as free elo or is nothing more than a minor inconvenience outside of users who mass forfeit their games, which is admittedly extremely rare and already a punishable offense. Finding battles is accessible enough that we don't feel the need to restrict someone's ability to queue over isolated instances of forfeiting.

 

[batfran]

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PS already has report options that are very topical to common things someone might actually want to open a report for. If you'd like to suggest that we add buttons for some offense(s) not already covered under these, then feel free to do so, but "stalling/quitting" aren't against our rules, so there's no reason to add a report option for them. The timer already punishes timer stalling by design, and "rage quitting" is either welcomed as free elo or is nothing more than a minor inconvenience outside of users who mass forfeit their games, which is admittedly extremely rare and already a punishable offense. Finding battles is accessible enough that we don't feel the need to restrict someone's ability to queue over isolated instances of forfeiting.

That's a fair answer- I guess the argument for it on Chess.com is you can't open a new game simultaneously like you can in PS? To your point though, isn't the post already considered a suggestion for adding buttons? Or is there more of a process I haven't read properly in the pinned post in the Suggestions section?

 

[Adeleine]

I guess the argument for it on Chess.com is you can't open a new game simultaneously like you can in PS?

That's one reason.

Another is that if a player quits on PS, you wait a couple minutes at most, and if a player quits on Chess.com, you might wait 10 minutes, a half hour, hours, or days.

This shorter timer makes quitting opponents less inconvenient, and it makes intentional quits harder to distinguish from accidental internet disconnections, we we'd end up punishing more innocent people.

(I'm not sure whether the Chess.com rules consider "I'll abort every game i'm Black"-type quitting under the quitting rules, but if it does, that's another factor that doesn't apply to us, because we don't allow aborting games.)

 

[batfran]

That's one reason.

Another is that if a player quits on PS, you wait a couple minutes at most, and if a player quits on Chess.com, you might wait 10 minutes, a half hour, hours, or days.

This shorter timer makes quitting opponents less inconvenient, and it makes intentional quits harder to distinguish from accidental internet disconnections, we we'd end up punishing more innocent people.

(I'm not sure whether the Chess.com rules consider "I'll abort every game i'm Black"-type quitting under the quitting rules, but if it does, that's another factor that doesn't apply to us, because we don't allow aborting games.)

Alright! Well, I appreciate the feedback, this actually makes a lot of sense.

Also, my first time using Smogon forums so thanks for interacting with the post!