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Topic: Asking your opponent to resign...
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Robelix, interesting comments you made,in fact I tend to agree with majority of them. Having been around the Net playing on various sites this topic has and will probably always be a "hot" topic when playing turn based chess. I just tend to have the following guidelines, which I use and apply myself.
When I play an opponent i.e say Popcorn or Gambitsharp, MikeDorothy, Tads21 or one of the higher ranked, good players here and I loose three points early in the game with a relatively bad blunder changes of me playing on is remote. I have played this game for a good few years now and know that strong opponents like that, given a three point advantage and good position will not blunder. In cases like these I tend to make sure I resign nice and early and avoid letting my opponent play out a game where the result is known long before the end.
I have, previously asked players to resign in hopeless positions against me and have been met with hostility and in other cases players who apologized for not resigning earlier and doing so immediately.
There are, I believe, no hard and fast rule on resignation and my rule of thumb would rather be to try and gauge your opponent, learn the diffirent players and make suggestions/comments/requests based on the specific individuals.
Some years ago we have an International GM (Sadly my country does not have one) and he played a simel game against our entire club consisting of 30 players plus.Our coach, at the briefing before the games started, asked us to please resign against this fellow early when getting into trouble, in that way obviously showing our respect for his abilities and not boring him to death. Maybe this should, to a certuin extend also be applied in online chess.
I think the GOLDEN RULE here is to respect your opponent, especially if you are a lower ranked/rated player playing against someone with a rating much higher than you.
Just my two cents.
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unless there is ZERO fight left in the position, I resign.
There are games where my opponent will be down a pawn or a piece and still play on, that is there right.... and if anyone ever asked me to RESIGN???
I would be insulted, just my two cents 
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Annoying your opponent is against the rules, and in OTB play can leads to a penalty of adding time to your opponent's clock. Comments such as, "you should resign," upon complaint would receive a warning, and a penalty could be assessed if it happens repeatedly.
In traditional correspondence play, conditional moves are binding, although not all turn-based sites have these implemented, and none fully. It should be considered acceptable, however, to announce a forced checkmate in a certain number of moves (which might inform the opponent that resignation would be welcome, and that all hope is lost).
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Well in one of my games I am up a queen and rook vs. queen with mate in 2 and another up the exchange queen for rook yet no one is resigning, I feel like asking many times for an opponent to resign some of the more credible players here have resigned but some less sportmanlike players here play to the end no matter what.
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I once was asked to resign and felt it was very rude. I had no intention of playing until mate, I just wanted to see how my opponent would convert a winning situation into a won game. Still I don't think my opponent should have asked me to resign.
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