I think two changes to the vacation policy would solve the problem of vacation abuse. First, get rid of auto-vacation. If you need to take vacation, you should manually change your status to vacation. Second, your vacation status should automatically end when you do something on the site (start a game, open a tactics problem, post something in a forum, etc. If you're doing other things on the site, your vacation isn't keeping you from making moves in your daily games. It makes no sense to allow a player to inconvenience his opponents by taking several vacations from his daily games - while he continues to play live games during his vacations.
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Nov 19, 2017
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FBloggs wrote:
I think two changes to the vacation policy would solve the problem of vacation abuse. First, get rid of auto-vacation. If you need to take vacation, you should manually change your status to vacation. Second, your vacation status should automatically end when you do something on the site (start a game, open a tactics problem, post something in a forum, etc. If you're doing other things on the site, your vacation isn't keeping you from making moves in your daily games. It makes no sense to allow a player to inconvenience his opponents by taking several vacations from his daily games - while he continues to play live games during his vacations.
Excellent! Bravo!
The amount of vacation days awarded seems excessive - I joined in December, used 9 days in August for a Caribbean Cruise plus Florida REAL vacation and I still have 3 MONTHS left.
In any case, a limited amount of time should be allowed for each chess game. An opponent in a team game that started in September has STILL not made his first move and has 8 days left. His timeout rate is 84% as he's losing all his games. I hope nothing bad happened to him, but he has kept me from joining other matches because I don't know if I'm going to have two consecutive games against him or not and I have a limited amount of time for playing.