Evidently I violated the Good Sportsmanship policy for punishing those who refuse to resign.

"Never" is a very strong term.  In four decades of working chess tournaments I've seen 1800 players defending the Black side of K vs K+P with the Black king on e6, the White pawn on e5, and still make a mistake and lose it.

I've seen weak players do things like play Qg7 in your position above planning on Qc4+ and mate the next move.  Then getting surprised after the Black king moves and Qc4 is no longer a check but is now a stalemate.  The same type of weak players are ones that draw K+Q vs K because every move was a queen check without moving that side's king.  And when the arbiter verifies the (drawn) result and says they should learn from it then the same player in a later round again having K+Q vs K offers an immediate draw because the player has learned that time is saved that way.  If those are the players you are facing then they do not even realize that you don't have to promote to deliver checkmate and you are failing to teach any lesson that you want to teach. (you are instead teaching them that if they have the same type of strong position then they still need to promote even more)

PS looking at the rating is not necessarily an indication of actual strength because many players unintentionally either underestimate or overestimate their strength.  I don't know how many times high school chess coaches have had a parent of an incoming freshman contact them saying their kid is great, beats everybody in the neighborhood, beats everybody in the extended family, and will be their new top board - then it turns out that everybody in the family/neighborhood is a very weak player and the freshman needs a year of practice before having a chance of making even the bottom board on the team.  Such players are likely to be honestly mistaken about their strength and choose 1200 or 1600 or 2000 as their starting rating.

If they don't resign and you checkmate them, you win. If not, their strategy was proven correct. So, nothing to complain about.

Also, when I looked at your rapid stats, you lose to checkmate more than losing to resignation. Kind of ironic. 

     "This has turned into a thread about resigning"........                                Funny how that works heh?  2 days ago, you posted if YOUR actions would suspend or ban your account. You may know how to play chess, but the forums and public opinion is a different animal. In the immortal words of Commander Riker......."Cheers".

The difference is I'm doing it as a reaction, while they are doing it first.

Imagine someone spits on you, and you spit on them in response. And then you complain about people spitting on you. Would it be correct to say 'what's the difference, you spit on them?'

Which means I lose by resigning which means I'm not a #NeverResign member which means I'm not going to be refusing to resign when all I have is my king and someone is promoting 5 pawns to knights. Which means there is actually nothing ironic about that.

You asked me what the difference was and I told you. Now you appear to be making some new argument. When you figure out what your point is, let me know.

So it's all about getting a message? 

    It's because YOU are the one complaining about people dragging out games with unnecessary moves. Then you do the same, "to teach them a lesson". It seems the lesson you are teaching is that such behavior is perfectly reasonable, even laudable.

Not only do I agree with you that there is a difference, I think the difference is that what you're doing is worse. 

Now that you know that the vast majority of posters disagree with you (and with good reason), are you going to consider your bad sportsmanship behavior or have you learned something?

You could ask these "timewasters" if they need any help with their game if they seem to be overwhelmed by your better play? Could spark a good friendship?

I disagree that doing something unprovoked is the same as doing it provoked. 

If it's against the rules, I will stop doing it.

If it's not against the rules, I will not stop doing it.

If you make your decisions in life based on what the vast majority of people in a forum tell you, I think you're doing it wrong. 

If you're not aware, there is a little link to not receive any more draw requests for that game. Look in the pop up. Very useful against them and just people who keep requesting it.

1. Just because something isn't against the rules, doesn't mean it's not poor sportsmanship.

I could use provoking emotes during game and that's not against the rules, but its certainly poor sportsmanship.

2. Your decision shouldn't be based on the majority of people's perception, it should be WHY it's perceived that way.

For example, what you're doing in game is clearly and obviously immature, scummy, and absolute garbage. 

So your decision shouldn't be that most people think what you're doing it immature, it should be based on the fact...it's simply immature...

That's why you should stop doing it.

That's because, as was already pointed out, they are likely to have very good reasons to keep playing. If they think you don't know how to checkmate (and many beginners have this problem) they will play on. They are not wasting time if they feel they have a good chance at stalemate and/or feel you don't know what you are doing. 

That's in contrast to your actions, which you admit just wastes time and you do it for "fun". 

You're confusing your opinions for objective fact. Your opinions are not objective fact. They're just your opinions. 

I have my own opinions. And they differ from yours.

It doesn't make any difference whether everybody or nobody agrees with me, I'm not going to change my mind about this. I came here to ask about rules, not about whether I should play the way I do.

   Pulp:......"So it's all about getting a message"?                                                He wasn't aware that the message he received,.....applies to many situations.  Its not his job to "punish" members......its his choice to play members. 

I can have an opinion that calling every opponent stupid before a match begins is not poor sportsmanship.

But it doesn't make it reasonable.

Sorry man, you have a tendency to be a poor sport. You can fight it all you want, but it doesn't change anything.

In general, people who don't resign are just trying to see if they can win/draw.

People who underpromote to prolong the game are 100x worse.

I think at heart you know. I think you try to justify your poor actions to yourself, but realize how scummy it sounds when you share it with the community.