timing out instead of quitting ?

Players dropping out of play - letting several minutes pass without a move on short time controls - just timing out instead of a clean quit. Often it looks as some last resort to retaliate for a lost position. A waste of time for the waiting player. Perhaps a karma system with a cooldown period could be used to flag the behaviour in the lobby?

I had such a game recently.
I made an autoclicker that gave him 15 seconds every 15 seconds.
So he wouldn't be able to play anything else until he resigned.

He disconnected after 10-15 minutes or so.

Fight fire with fire.

en.lichess.org/wF9wZmP0o0ji

@tennersgnissel @bobMormon I had many opponents with similar behavior. It is really frustrating. Why don't players just resign the game instead of leaving the game without resigning?

Cool solution @bobMormon. The game that triggered this post, the opponent played 1 move, then waited 9:50s of a 10min game for the next move - hoping I would quit in the process.

Must be possible to dream up an algorithm to tag the kind of gameplay or a perhaps let the opponent trigger a Karma downvote if you timeout without reason . You dont want to punish a player just thinking and not finding a solution, or perhaps giving service to some crying kid with a message to excuse.

Lol, this solution is simply brilliant!

@bobMormon Damn! Savage!

@tennersgnissel @steilii @Irishman964

Thanks.

I actually recorded the incident for fun in my chess chatroom.
Here's the video:

vid.me/7PZA

nothing exciting, it just shows it autoclicking every 15 seconds.

Fun was writing it up as quickly as possible, like programming-bullet.

Sourcecode for those interested:

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# Python 3
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import subprocess
from time import sleep
import requests

x = 0
while x < 4:

subprocess.run(["wmctrl", "-a", "Firefox"])
subprocess.run(["xdotool", "mousemove", "--sync", "1142", "267"])
subprocess.run(["xdotool", "click", "1"])

sleep (15)

This is indeed a creative solution, haha

The Python script is Linux only, no?

A Windows solution using AutoHotkey would be:

WinActivate ahk_exe firefox.exe
WinWaitActive ahk_exe firefox.exe
loop {
MouseMove 1142, 267
Click
Sleep 15000
}

@Linnemann
Yes it is only for Linux, I forgot to mention that.
Thanks for your Windows Script, I'm saving that.