I guess in terms of finding out information going backward it was mentioned
though the tag has since been removed to say a player has recently timed out of a game.
There was an old suggestion to annul only if the player hadn’t been logged in in a while (i.e. they’ll probably time out of all games vs they are just ignoring losing games)
I guess this was the mention of inflation problems of not taking points away from losers but awarding points to winners
But in terms of
I suppose I don’t see much difference between these except that a few people should be happier. It’ll still be a random selection of timed out games so not everyone will be happy.
So for instance if you had 7 games in a round robin or McMahon where the next round of the tournament started unexpectedly (which happens a lot - I mean I timed out of fast correspondence games like this recently) then 3-5 of your opponents will be happy but a random subset won’t be.
Probably could be an improvement, but probably not guaranteed to make everyone happy 