Originally posted by buddy2
Well, I just played someone in FICS twice. He was around 1100. I'm about 1400 FICS. He just crushed me. I suspect an engine, but it could just be my lousy play. Then i play some jerk, making obscene comments all during the game. I didn't realize it until later because i turn off chat during the game. I thought about reporting him, then i thought, "What ...[text shortened]... e, but you'll get a minus time for up to five minutes(!) before theyll give you the game.
Could be lots of reasons why you lose to a 1100 player, eg, it's a shared account, or he got drunk one night and his rating plummetted. I've lost recently to a 1100 player there too. I had the sense he was really putting in the effort against me due to my rating.
Reporting the guy might not be a bad idea, as they may put him on their abuser list, which means it'll be hard for him to get a game. If I was you, I would definitely also add him to your +censor and +noplay lists - or at least the first. And add !abuser to your settings.
Time-abuse is one of the worst things in FICS, but you should set your autoflag to 1, which sorts out most of the problems. They have a technical problem which I made them aware of a while back and which they haven't as far as I know fixed. That is, if you use Jin and reverse your system clock say by an hour, you get an infinite amount of time and your clock never moves! (This happened to me accidentally, btw!)