Re: Follow up from the meeting on Issue 14: timeouts

I’m not sure what the current wording is, 

but anything that has to do with giving warnings when there is a time limit should have an exception for anything that is based on the real world. 
Auctions, filing deadlines, many deadlines, games, real-time interaction, etc. the author isn’t setting the time limit in these cases, it’s a natural function of the fact that something has to be done by a certain time in real-time. 
And it would get very tedious (and look pretty strange) if authors had to keep writing on their page every time there was something that had deadline. (“Warning, there is a time limit for you to shoot the enemy. You must shoot them before they shoot you”) (“warning, there’s a time limit on getting onto the elevator. You must get on the elevator before the doors close”)


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Gregg C Vanderheiden
greggvan@umd.edu




> On May 10, 2017, at 12:41 PM, White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org> wrote:
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> I think the SC requiring advance warning for time limits which states the amount of time available (if this time limit is known by the author) is a viable SC (or viable addition to 2.2.1)
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> [Jason] It’s viable, but I’m not enthusiastic about it, as it doesn’t solve the user’s problem. Could we better confine the use of options 2 and 3 in SC 2.2.1?
> That is, can we state the circumstances in which it’s acceptable to use option 2 or 3? At the moment, it’s entirely at the author’s discretion, whereas from the user’s point of view, either the first option (the time limit can be removed) or the last option (it’s more than 20 hours in duration) is far preferable. The exceptions are outside the content author’s control and so would remain in any case.
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