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Post by Loki on Feb 3, 2011 11:12:50 GMT -5
Both of you can die in a fire
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Post by Non Compos Mentis on Feb 3, 2011 15:07:23 GMT -5
I am not in agreement with the new .5 penalty for posting in the last two hours. It's unreasonable to have a dealing an punish people for posting WITHIN it. Why dont you just push the deadline back 2 hours if you're going to punish us for posting then?
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Post by hybrid on Feb 3, 2011 15:17:04 GMT -5
I am not in agreement with the new .5 penalty for posting in the last two hours. It's unreasonable to have a dealing an punish people for posting WITHIN it. Why dont you just push the deadline back 2 hours if you're going to punish us for posting then? You know, the simple counter to this is to just post a short RP sooner, before your opponent, to negate his or her .5 gain. I'm thinking actually, to be fair, a RP posted two hours before the deadline should lose .1 and not .5 If you lose .1, you can still win the match if your RP was .5 higher than your opponent's. The only way you can lose by posting 2 hours before the deadline would be if both RPs had the same score.
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Post by A Ghost in the Wind on Feb 3, 2011 15:27:53 GMT -5
As I explained to another via AIM:
Yes, the deadline IS set for a reason.
And you still get to post up until the deadline.
But just as there is an incentive to post before your opponent (an incentive no-one has complained about, and most have told me it's a good idea), there's now a penalty for those who sandbag.
Do you know how hard it is for the person(s) writing the results to write in a timely manner, when people are posting minutes before the deadline goes up; how hard it is to determine whether it's going to be a no-show or not?
There's no penalty if you post on the day of the deadline outside of the last two hours- the penalty is only being used as a tool to discourage handlers from waiting until the last 120 minutes of the deadline to post their one[/u] rp.
If a handler usually has more than 330 hours to write 1 rp, losing .5 points for sandbagging isn't too harsh a penalty.
The only people who will really have a problem with this penalty are those people who procrastinate until the last two hours to post.
As it stands, it's just a tool to discourage sandbagging and deadlining. Just as the .5 bonus incentive is a tool to promote activity.
If it becomes too big of an issue, I'll reconsider the penalty and the bonus. But I'd rather try to improve on ways to combat deadlining than to consistently see rps done while the results are being written, their opponents have had nothing to go on or read for over a week and a half, and most are assuming a no-show.
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Post by hybrid on Feb 3, 2011 15:33:10 GMT -5
We could always have the deadline time be unknown the day of. Meaning if you wait until the deadline, you're gambling.
So, the deadline could be anytime after noon the day of...
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Post by Lantlas on Feb 3, 2011 15:58:42 GMT -5
Or... You could just not wait til deadline day.
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Post by Sadistic on Feb 3, 2011 16:16:14 GMT -5
I agree with the penalty. With nearly two weeks to RP, I don't see how penalizing somebody for posting within two hours of the deadline should even be an issue.
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Post by A Ghost in the Wind on Mar 8, 2013 20:25:43 GMT -5
Updated as of March 8, 2013.
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