Stop discrimination of people with higher than 10% timeout percentage. Join this group: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/high-timeout-percentage

Here is a thought, don't timeout so much and more people will want to play you.

sometimes people can't reach there games, lose interest for a time and then come back, or be stupid like me, and create 300 games, then not have time to move on all of them. Not to be defensive.

How could you run out of move time? even with 300 games. I only have 40, and this is probably not the best idea, but I usually only take about 5-10 seconds to look at the average move and make it. Of course, more deep positions require more analyzing, but still.

maybe one day you become busy with one hundred games with 1 day left. Or maybe you try to think a little longer on each move.

I hate to be unsympathetic, but bascially the arguement here is "I did a dumb thing but please dont judge me on it".  Starting a huge number of games and not finishing them has a predictable result.  I am new, but I only play a few games at a time, keeping within the amount of time I have to spend chess.

well i sure is glad that so many people have reliable connectors and a reliable electricity supply - must feel real good to berate those of us that don't

I used to be unsympathetic too, but that is not the only reason, I used to think that every person who had an average over 10% was a moron, but the people who have an average over 10% will understand.

Sometimes life happens and your games aren't, or can't be, your top priority.

This is an introduction for a new group -- I don't know why the need to come in here and dump on it.  Don't join it if you don't like it.

world's full of morons, mate, but you're more likely to find 'em in government than on this site

Oh grobe shut up and address the true issue

Its perfectly acceptable to discriminate against people with a high timeout. Time outs ruin games and tournements. If you can't consistently make games you shouldn't jon tournements out of courtesy. Most of you don't abide by this, so discimination against you occurs. In short, it's your fault.

Maybe if there's a group for them they can play against each other with a little more tolerance and less judgement for timeouts.  The stat is there for you to use, don't play them if you don't want to.

hey, that's a nice idea. Apartheid can work! In fact, I think that people with a very high percentage of time-outs should have to join tournaments with other high timeout percentage people and when they build up a better record they can enter back into the mainstream.

It is a major pain when tournaments take an eternity because of people timing out and even using up all their vacation time and timing out as well.

It's not going to work though because people can easily just start a new account and resume their bad habits with a new moniker.

They are self organizing the group -- it's not as though I'm suggesting that everyone with a timeout percentage over a certain limit be forced into a chess.com ghetto, get a grip.

There are timeout percentage limits and time per move limits that you can put on your tournaments -- the "issue" is within your control.

No one will join that group. This thread is more about complaining about how unfair it is to do something annoying (like timing out all the time) but then have to put up with consequences. Life is way harder then that...

We sure are a judgmental lot.  There are any number of reasons someone might time out.  I see the fact that people haven't done what padman suggested the might, start a new account, as evidence that they are willing to put up with the consequences.  The group being one way to deal with them.

As I said, there are mechanisms available to you that will ensure you never have to play them.  Is it really necessary to come in here and dump on the guy who's services were cut off?  Or who had a personal tragedy?  Or a work related emergency?

This is just a chess site.  Sometimes life takes precedence.

What's with all this bashing? You can't log in one day and voila, you have to play like 100 games more to be able to participate in tournaments. This group is a nice idea.

Thank you TheGrobe and others who see the real point, I was not trying to complain, but simply was trying to make a group for people who can't play in tournaments and other forms of chess.

I don't think poorly of people who can't afford a premium membership, and sometimes have to attend to other priorities in life.

However, I think what people with high timeouts don't appreciate is how disruptive and unfair that is to the other players in a tournament.  You penalize fast players, because slower players are more likely to benefit from timeouts.  You can have people in one section advancing without even having to play a real game.  It messes with people's ratings a lot too.  When tournaments are set up to avoid players with high timeouts, it's for a reason.