players that manipulate the clock

I have to admit, that I encountered something like that once myself: My oppenet had only a couple of seconds left but suddenly every move, that lasted several seconds or even minutes in "real time", took only 1 second on the lichess clock. That really felt like cheating in some way.
First I thought, it could be some network issue, but that was not the case.
Well, it only happened once, but it was really irritating.

oh sorry I didnt noticed that. artros thats propably he had big ping in his internet connection.

@Feniks714: That could have been the case, but it was very strange that it only happened when he had only very little time left and was about to lose the game. Maybe it was just a coincidence, but it felt like, if he was hitting some "cheat button", that enabled him to stop the clock.
Well, but as I wrote: It only happened once, so probably it was just a network problem.

This situation exists during OTB games too.
You're thinking about your bad position, you have only few minutes left...
And then your opponent show the clock... flag down.

I have never heard it was a real problem.

Why woud it be more important here ?

related: lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/freezing-clock#4

I seen it too, it is an old hack that can be traced to a simple lag switch... There are other ways, but this is the simplest form without programming knowledge...

It isn't lag, as the house will condescendingly claim... Why do they deny it??? These things are a hack and I suppose they want the façade of safety here, but the game packets are user defined, and for those who know; not secure and for those who know and perpetuate the myth of lag; fork ewe...

@wolfs-sleeve Conspiracy theorist, huh? I haven't read such nonsense in a long time! You think the earth's flat, too? LOL!

@odoaker2015

So you are one who knows, yet denies, as I said fork ewe...

OK as whole'... some may get this...

www.cs.colorado.edu/~jrblack/papers/icc.pdf

I mean this was for his Master's in info science...

Not much has changed BTW in those dozen or so years, the important and exploitable thing, despite changes is that the server packets are still UDP...

@wolfs-sleeve I know this Document. But why would emarku do that? Look at his rating, please! It's obvious he was just running out of time! There's nothing maniplated! So, please! That's just ridiculous!

A lot has changed since then.