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Stalling brought up again

Hi guys, I noticed that things haven't changed in that topic, so I decided to bring it up again. Stalling, the act of letting run down your time (mostly in losing positions), is a violation against the Fair Play policy on lichess and in chess in general.
I know that lichess is still in the development process, but I feel that this issue had been ignored so far.
On chess.com I recently experienced something very pleasant:
After my opponent was stalling, this message appeared on the screen:
"*opponent's name* may have violated our Fair Play policy - it has been noted and they may have their account restricted."
So this is certainly possible. Actually you don't have to look at the position, you only have to take a look at the time consumption.
if only in terms of time consumption, how to differentiate between the thousands of legit games played daily where one side is genuinely thinking on their move and ran out of time.

would u propose a running hidden position evaluator for every game to monitor the situation ?

sounds impractical to me.
I'm not talking about 20 seconds and losing on time. It's normally over a minute. Also, you can try to accumulate suspicious cases.
So when it often happens that someone lets his time run down at the end of the game, you caution him and if it happens again ban his account.
still, you would need a position evaluation process along with time running down factor to work together to detect the cases that you speak of,

how do you propose this can be done with the volume of games played here every day.
You don't need a position evaluation process. When people are winning, they are not stalling ;)
"when people are winning they are not stalling"

... ok then smarty, you use the word winning, how is this determined without some sort of live hidden evaluator ?
That means, stalling doesn't occur if somebody is winning.
Why would you let run down your time if your winning? This doesn't make sense.
Well when i have mate in one and its clearly there, one of the things i like doing when they havent resigned a "lost for a longtime game" is let my time run until the last seconds only to deliver a mate.

I like giving them hope (and they hold on to it) and then snuff it away.

Most effective when you have like 1 or 2 or more mins left.

So yeh, it does happen.

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