Idea: Timeout of unanswered challenged

[GreEn`mArine]

Hello. I've got an idea to avoid insane long waiting times for challenges. I have to consider the fact that there are people who sign up their accound and then never visit the page again, so my idea is to create a function (that is run via cronjob) that will look through all open challenges (that means "player a" challenged "player b", "player b" shows no reaction, he/she doesn't accept/decline it) and will delete all open challenges that are in this situation for two weeks. while it get's deleted, the challenged player will also get a penalty point because he/she didn't accept/decline it.

I want you to vote whether you agree to this thing or not. The script would be run once or twice a day because it is not that time-critical when talking about "weeks". If it would get in, I would also include the information to the Rules Page of course. Be aware of the fact that a open challenge info page will show you the date when you were challenged. However, I might include a warning message (or color the match in yellow in the Your Matches Page) once you got only a few days left to accept/decline it.

Beside this I gonna ban all user accounts that have their "last login" date older than 30 days.

[esteel]

It might be a good idea IF we also get email notification of challanges
Yeah people should at least once per week log into the ladder page but it would be nice after all..

[tChr]

It makes sense.. allthough I dont understand why a cornjob is needed This would also need to take "time-outs" into consideration.

Edit:
Timeout was my name for inactivity

[GreEn`mArine]

I could also include the function to index.php, but then it would run every time the users open the page which is too much load IMO. running it every hour or so should be enough, and that's best done via cronjob

esteel: I will think about it (email notification)

[Urmel]

I think two weeks is diefinately to short time. Hey, summer's coming, holidays You know.

If You'd written two MONTHS for the challenges, three Months for the ladder membership, okay. Why u have to hurry like that? It's not that plenty of people that have joined the ladder. I think many of them joined but want to increase their skills furst, and don't have time to exercise every day.

Or do You want to finish the ladder until June??

[GreEn`mArine]

I don't think I'll overload the "I have too much reallife for playing nexuiz but I sign up anyway because it's cool" people by forcing them to "log in" (and nothing more) at least once a month and to at least accept/decline a challenge within two weeks

arguments like "holidays" are nonsense because of the inactivity button

@esteel: I put email notification to the To-do list

[Urmel]

Do You really think ppl join the ladder "because it's cool"????

Maybe yer right, I don't agree exactly w You. Likely because it's really that RL thing You can't believe. It's been a quite long tyme since I've joined the ladder, I had only 2 matches.
Actually it's not only my fault. The last days, having time for a match or two, I couldn't find too many ppl on IRC, and even if theyre online, they don't talk to You. Some other are never seen on IRC. I'm a little pissed of that I have to confess.

Ok maybe I understand You GreEn....

[esteel]

Hehe i really hope this does not affect accepted challanges as i feel really bad the last days. Think i'm on the edge of getting sick. And my open challanges right now are really hard ones so i want to be in a better shape from them
Urmel: Yeah there are much more people in the ladder then i have ever seen on irc. But well the PMs should also work to get together for a match but irc is really much easier and faster. So people join us!!!

[PHREAK]

Problem is that many people either dont care or dont know what IRC is.
Trust me, I was suprized as well but hey, not everyone is oldschool.
Anywho, the e-mail notification might help here a little bit. (although I suck at checking my mail..as stahl nows )

To me it's a bit strange to see such a long list of people that have joined but have never played or even chalanged someone.
We should have a thing that if you dont have your first match in a certain amount of time, you're out. Might clean up the ladder page a great deal.

[esteel]

Oh almost everyone in the list is at least challanged (the small 'vs XXX' beside the name shows) so its just that people either do not know, do not play or have other problems. Though we did not hear about any problems except ping when playing people in other continents and thats nothing we can change. So maybe the people just did not noticed they have been challanged or have no idea they have to actively get in touch with the challanger/challangee to get the match done. Or they have no idea about the report but there are now enough up so they can almost copy them
So i guess its they do not know about being challenged