Escaping by Timeout

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Increased Escape Behavior Post Timeout Rule Change

Much more likely I am not up to date. My information was word of mouth from other friends on the site that something changed with how timeouts are handled back in August. Either way, what is the policy and process for dealing with escapers? My cursory reading of the forums is that I basically just have to deal with it, which at the low rate I play games makes me really hesitant about playing with anyone who has any losses by timeout, and yet I can’t do anything to avoid those players in tournam…

Automatic Vacation After Multiple Time-outs (Correspondence)

How about having vacation come on automatically for anyone who has Timed-Out of two consecutive correspondence games and still has more correspondence games going? This suggestion was inspired by this issue: A friend is losing many games by timeout, what should I do? and is aimed at improving the situation discussed exhaustively here: Proposition: Loss by timeout in correspondence games should not affect rank and here: What is the rule about time out now The site provides very generous vacatio…

What is the rule about time out now

I know there were lots of discussion and changes made. Last time I remembered, it is like the 1st timeout game will cause you to go down in ranking but not subsequent games, and if you time out in one game from a tournament you retire from that tournament. And I am not sure about what happen to the winner. Does the win count? Is this still the rule? If not, can someone make a summary ? And what exactly is “subsequent games”? Does it mean life time or games within that tournament or some other …

Proposition: Loss by timeout in correspondence games should not affect rank

I’m going to claim that, philosophically, adjustment of rating is done in order to achieve an accurate estimate of strength rather than to punish the loser or reward the winner. When a player times out due to not playing turns for a days or weeks … that’s not really the same as losing a live game on time. I think the current practice of adjusting rank for timeout makes the OGS ratings less accurate. Once I entered a few tournaments and my rating ballooned up 3 to 4 stones due to timeouts by m…