Please, I dont want to join a game and sit around for 3 minutes waiting for it to abort as my opponent just sits there, or in some cases "waits to reconnect". My time is valuable. My suggestion would be to cut the time down to 10-30 seconds, as thats definitely a reasonable amount of time to be expected to make the first move. Maybe even too much. Id hate for this site to become like yahoo where you join a game and have to wait minutes for anyone to make a move.

Phelon, if you haven't seen the following, please read:

http://blog.chess.com/webmaster/live-chess-updates-fair-play--tournaments

Quite strange, cause around an hour ago I started a game against someone, they never connected to the game just had the "waiting to reconnect" message up, and I had to wait a good 1-2 minutes before the server aborted.