Board Thread:Officer's Pub (Staff Only, idiots)/@comment-422690-20130822153435/@comment-4484220-20130825151011

Hey, sorry for arriving late to this discussion. Haven't been too active these past couple of weeks.

I would be in of this proposal, since inactive authors with battles they reserved a while back can be an annoyance. I believe we already have a rule that if an author is inactive for two months or more, then their reserved match-up is either up for grabs, or should be removed from the warriors' statuses. Although I suppose that doesn't make this proposal entirely irrelevant, since this helps handle semi-active users as well. I think 18 months would be a good cut-off point. A year might be a bit too soon, and 2 years would be holding the bush a bit too long.

You seem to be focussing mostly on inactive and semi-active users. My question is, how should this tie into users who delay their battles for a long time, but are still active on the wiki throughout that period? Perhaps quality over quantity may be a factor in their slowness, but even then, if they go a year-and-a-half of being active on this wiki but not doing any of their reserved battles, this may be just as inhibitting as those who are inactive/semi-active, even if the author still claims they plan on doing them. The main reason I'm bringing this up is because I basically just described myself. If everyone else agrees that authors who delay their battles but are still active and still intend on doing them should get a free pass, then I won't protest, but I can't deny that my low battle:edit ratio is a reasonable source of both criticism and annoyance to many. It may not hurt to give people like me a cut-off point if we don't produce any relevant content so as to give me the "kick up the arse to get moving" that I need, like Wass said.

One thing I'd like to suggest is that this cut-off point gets renewed every time a user proves that they are still going with ther battles. Some of these things may include posting a new blog post for a battle, publishing the simulation to one of their battles, or possibly even posting information relevant to one of their upcoming battles in their sandbox.