If you don’t care enough to finish the games that you are playing or simply don’t have the time to play at least 1 move per day(each game) maybe you shouldn’t be playing way too many games at the same time?
My suggestion: once a player (that is playing like 20+ games at the same time) loses a correspondence game by timeout, stop the said player from starting/joining new correspondence games/tournaments for like 1 day or more.
I think that’s a reasonable suggestion. I wouldn’t expect it to help much though. I think most timeouts are from people who simply stop playing (entirely or for a while), not from people who can’t keep up. (I don’t have any hard numbers to support that though, just my impression.)
I just looked at my last 5 wins by timeout (correspondence). None of the 5 opponents had many games going. In 4 cases the reason was simply stopping to play, the 5th is a bit unclear.
N=5 isn’t much, but it’s a bit better than ‘just my impression’.
It is indeed annoying if a player times out. However there are invalid reasons for timing out but also valid reasons. And since it is impossible to determine whether a time out is valid or not, this measure - banning a player from starting/joining correspondence games/tournaments for like 1 day or more - is just too harsh.
By the way, timing out in live, blitz or rengo tournaments is also annoying.
My point is, if you are likely to not finish some of your games, you should focus on your current games, instead of starting new games that may also not get finished.
As I’ve mentioned, I’ve raised a similar point myself before.
I don’t really appreciate game hoarders, because they snatch games from people who would actually play and enjoy them, on top of leaving their opponents hanging.
I’m just pointing out that game settings are important to keep in mind.
People who time out in long games usually don’t come back, people who time out in fast/mid games are usually hoarders. In my limited experience.
I wouldn’t want to ban these people, but I certainly block them from accepting my challenges.