Vacation Protection Unfair

Has anybody noticed that the vacation policy is contradictory?  If you use vacation with a lost position the staff will adjudicate.  If its already been determined to be a lost position what is to adjudicate?  Its lost (by whatever undisclosed criteria are being used).  So exactly when and by whom was this determination made done?  The policy only applies to "lost" positions (not lost by the rules of chess, mind you) which designation must be applied before the new vacation policy was invoked.  So who is really adjudicating?

I think it is past time for a real binding explanation by the staff.  I note this policy was implemented after I paid my money and I was never notified.  My credit card company shows greater courtesy.

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There's been vacation rules in correspondence chess since before I was a little lad.

Where certain elite individuals don't get penalised if they dont move for 90 days, while lesser mortals might forfeit?

"We do not play correspondence chess.  Correspondence chess is played via mail.  We play normal online chess with a very long time allowed between moves."

Oh really?  I wasn't aware of the distinction, thank you for clearing up The Mystery of the Non-Existent Post Cards, just before I called in Sherlock Holmes. CC is closer to online chess than OTB that was my point. You saying that there's no rules for vacation in chess was a red herring.

I like it! you can't talk me out of that! but you also don't make the rules, wind your neck in.

Erik's take - FWIW.

What new rule concerning vacations has been made ? Sorry, I dozed off.... happens at my age .

Many of us simply don't recognise "vacation abuse" as anything other than a subject for discussion. If my opponent takes a week/month/year for a move (or indeed many moves), why should I care? I have patience and in the meantime I play other games. I don't understand why people get so petty about the move they are waiting for next... probably used to life in which everything is "just so". Life's not like that for most of us. Chill.

I don't have an issue with vacation (well, I do, but not the issues discussed here).

But this topic is about Vacation Protection, (see, it's right up there in the title?)  That, for me, is an abomination. If you have two players, one premium and one not, and both suffer a similar crisis, and can't make their next move, one loses, and gets that ugly timeout stat, and the other survives to play on tomorrow.

Now that's NOT a level playing field....

 Seems like a good/logical rule to me. There are people complaining about this rule ?

I agree, and I fully endorse the removal of this restriction from non-premium members.

There are a number of points within chess.com's Terms & Conditions where it says that chess.com may penalize members in certain circumstances. In practice, they are quite tolerant and tend to hold back from levying those penalties except in cases of the most blatant and repeated infractions.

Some members are keener than others on a zero tolerance policy.

I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance policies.

TheGrobe has never wrote anything smarter than that.

Tolerance is vastly overrated .

Barely tolerating is barely tolerable.

The ICCF, recognized by FIDE, has been running online chess, server and email for sometime and is a far better authority for online chess than you or this site.  Now if Chess.com wants to play something other than recognized chess, fine.  Just say so.