Claiming wins have become obsolete.

Hello wonderful chess community I have some personal feedback to give. I believe the claiming of win after you aponen leaves have become obsolete. I remember when i could do it after 15-30 sec after my opponent left. But then I also remember where there was the bug that the opponent left and it was my move and i could claim it between 15-30 sec, even though i wasn't even waiting for my opponent to make a move because i hadn't made mine yet.

However now I had the misfortune to have to wait 2 minutes and 30 sec in a 5+3 game. When my opponent clairly left and after 5 seconds started a new game that i could watch by hovering my mouse over his disconnected name.

In my humble opinion this is faulty, I should not even have to wait 10 seconds in a case lake this. There should be some set of rules for when you can claim it instantly and or when you have to wait really long.

Any thoughts from someone? Do you Agree/Disagree? Let's get the ball rolling.

I often play against beginner and i totally agree with you. Seriously, I'm forced to wait those 2 minutes in a lot of my games. Those guy should be definitively banned as they ruin the game.

I quite often get d/c for legitimate reasons and the site registers it as abandoned too quickly in my opinion. If you know you've won and your opponent does, what does it matter whether the lichess.org database registers it? I really can't understand this mentality of being so bothered that the database record matches up in every single game. If someone wants to abandon the game, they will -- so what? I would personally be for changing the code to reflect this as a first-class result type, and if you don't abandon any games yourself you could look at all the "player walked away"s and see them as wins for yourself, if you want.

"what does it matter whether the lichess.org database registers it?"

I guess some players don't want a ban. Even if they disconnect during matches "for legitimate reasons".