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Topic: Players' demeanor rating?
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Hey!
This has probably been suggested a couple of times before, but because there is no search prompt for the forums (hey, how about a seach function for the forums?  ), I'm still gonna suggest a rating system where you can rate your opponent in terms of fair play and overall demeanor.
This would really be helpful when trying to determine which opponent to chose from the "suggested opponent" function!
I know, programming that is probably going to be a lot of work, but it's just a suggestion! Would be a cool function, I think!
Cheers,
Jan
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Of course, the ones most likely to be rated as having a bad attitude would be those most likely to ascribe a bad attitude to those whom they don't like...
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It would be pretty easy to game the system.
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Well, you have a good point, tewalt, that's why you should include a "comment" function in addition to a, say, "star"-rating for overall manner. 100 digits or so should easily suffice to describe what made you give a bad feedback (which should be the exception, hopefully).
That way, if somebody gave you a bad rating for no particular reason, it's up to you to make up your mind.
Maybe you could even add a "comment my rating" function like they have on ebay, but that's probably a little excessive ;-)
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My feeling is that there are both less and more objective criteria for determining whether players play 'fairly' or 'unfairly'. The less objective ones are more interesting, but weaker. Attitude, as mentioned by tewald, would count as a weaker one. As chess is basically a life or death affair, one must be prepared to take on any kind of attitude the opponent throws against you (which is not to say that better attitudes don't increase the chance of a repeat game!). I would not like an embargo on bad losers, bad winners or otherwise less pleasant opponents.
However, if somebody out there initiates many one day per move games and claims every game that goes overtime immediately, I would like to know so beforehand. The same goes for players who tend to use almost their entire available time before making their next move. In a tournament one just has to deal with these things. In games played for the sheer joy of playing chess, these habits can be a bit annoying.
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