Proposal for guidelines for reporting incomplete games

[Kool Kat]

I voted no simply because I have always been inclined towards less rules.  If it's been done a certain way for 20 years and no one is complaining, why attempt to fix it?  The Ladder was never a real score keeper it was just a fun way to gauge progress.  And when people get a reputation for doing hinky things people won't play them.  A player who reports many many Campaign games in quick succession will be viewed with a jaundiced eye by others and it will sort itself out naturally.

I absolutely second this. It should be a 'light' thing, playing games and getting on a ladder, done with some charity towards those who drop out after starting something that, for whatever reason, they can't finish, don't want to finish. The push for rules really makes it sound and feel like what is being dealt with is something much more serious and that there is a suspicion of cheating of some sort. I can't actually imagine the sort of person who would deliberately milk the system in the way imagined. 

An unintended consequence of more rules might well be that there will be even less people inclined to start ladder games, (a) because the rules imply some more serious level of commitment, such as might not be guaranteed in some people's lives for larger games (where 10% of moves might actually take up 10 weeks of their playing lives...) and (b) because people who are more keen on ladder placements might be more reluctant to start games with people who cannot 'guarantee' getting past a certain point. 

So, yeah, I vote you go with the vote, which still, at the moment, says do nothing. It ain't broke.