Raven wrote:again, new lev comes (annoying lev & battletime 45 mins) and no-one are there aborting it.
This is a good example why you have to be careful giving out the aborting priviledges. "Annoying lev" is hardly a good reason for aborting. If it was, I guess we'd have to abort most of the battles. Even "annoying lev & battletime 45 mins" is not good enough. Maybe a ban for too much intentional idiotism with lev designing and battle arranging. With aborting, you have to be more careful though.
Guess what happened with that battle Raven was talking about? That annoying lev with too long battletime? After some 10 minutes of Raven and Jappe2 screaming for abort, Markku finished the lev and eventually won. I checked the lev when my nick was first hilighted 5 mins after start and in my opinion it wasn't impossible (not always easy to see, which is why it is a good thing that Markku can abort battles). Annoying, yes, but not impossible. So I didn't abort. And Markku didn't lose a battle win.
Don't get me wrong. It's a bad thing to make battles with idiotic levs (for example, 3 minute slalom lev with invisible polygons, killers and gravity apples here and there) and clearly too long battletimes (for example, 30min battletime for under 10s lev). No one should do that. But aborting levs that are possible to finish is wrong for those that can finish them.
But there's also the matter of time elapsed. If there's a 30 min finishable but some "genious" lev (see earlier examples) and 10mins have already elapsed, then it's probably a good idea to let the battle run since there are likely ppl that have been playing it for a while already, and are maybe even close to finishing it. But if it's been only few mins since start then it's easy to abort because ppl have played less time for nothing and very probably no one is even close to finishing yet.
So as you see, it's not so easy to abort battles. But banning ppl, however, is. If I see that someone has started a 10min battle on 3s lev few minutes ago, I'll ban the starter and let the battle run.
Of course my decicion is not the right one every time and I can't be watching the channel 24/7 and neither can anyone else. But I think the current system of giving the aborting right to few selected ppl is better than any other system suggested.