the thing is.. they can reopen it back so its like a finite or infinite hibernation period.
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I stopped playing tourneys because of vacation abuse and other nefarious practices. I stick to match games with other clubs. The problem doesn’t seem as bad there and you still get the competition feel of it.
LouStule wrote:
I stopped playing tourneys because of vacation abuse and other nefarious practices. I stick to match games with other clubs. The problem doesn’t seem as bad there and you still get the competition feel of it.
Vacation abuse is a huge problem. I have seen in many tournaments and still facing it and I don't think there is a solution till yet. One thing you can do is if a person is abusing vacation time you can contact staff , they will message the member to move. They might remove the person from the tournament if the person still doesn't move and genuinely abusing vacation time.
My personal opinion: there is no such thing as vacation abuse.
If you wish to time out lots of games, play no vacation tournaments. Let others play at their pace.
Oh that's sad
maybe those people were not following the rules.
CoffeeAnd420
People here are amateurs playing in-between their everyday duties (job, children, etc). No "serious, thinking people" have 3 hours to sit and play a classic game. Blitz is OK, but playing it you cannot learn chess. Daily chess is a good way to improve if you take it seriously and to spend time if you play it while commuting.
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MGleason wrote:
"account closed: inactive", that means they closed their own account.
So Chesscomish is different from English.
Inactive means closing your own account.
We can start compiling the newspeak dictionary now.
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Marignon wrote:
My personal opinion: there is no such thing as vacation abuse.
If you wish to time out lots of games, play no vacation tournaments. Let others play at their pace.
Hello and Thank you for you comment but 'Vacation abuse' does exist. Which means a person coming online daily but not making a move at all and set his/her games on vacation. Mostly happens when a person is in losing position and then set on vacation. I have seen a lot.I have played more than 15000 daily games and have entered more than 2000 tournaments. I have seen this many times.
Infact few months ago I complained about Vacation abuse for a particular member to support staff as that member was coming online daily and playing blitz but not moving in his daily games as he was in a losing postions in lot of games in that tournament and the support staff told that member to move but he still din't and after a week that member was removed from the tournament by staff itself.
Is there a thing called vacation abuse?
Yes, in spades!
Will anything be done about it?
I doubt it.
But, just perhaps, cc could do something to mitigate it.
A common sense remedy would be easy to design.
No vacation Tourneys are too simple a remedy.
But, reining it in, is that too hard?
I don't know why they're doing this
I don't know why they chose the term "inactive", but if you look at an account where someone closed their own account, it tells you exactly that and tells you when they did it.
I usually use the term "self-closed", but maybe they thought that was slightly awkward wording.