[OFF TOPIC] Declined Challenges no points

Question

It is really annoying to have your challenges declined, I think we call all agree with that. I feel that if a person declinesbthe challenge then we should automatically score points. The person is forfeiting the match there should be an automatic loss for them and an auto win for the challenger. Otherwise it just isn't fair play. Why should the challenger get nothing for his or her time? Every other challenge in life has penalties for forfeiting.

Answer 1

Although I do agree that having people decline your challenges may be quite annoying, I wouldn't say that they should automatically be deducted XP for doing so. The reason for that is because you never really know what position the people you're challenging may be in. For example, they may have only been a beginner at a specific language, and wanted to focus more on learning the language through the course before actually accepting challenges. Another example, similar to Kaimi 's experience, would be if they had been challenged numerous times by either one or more opponent(s). This may push them to only do some and decline the rest as their challenge section would be absolutely flooded. Now, I realize that those examples are quite specific, but my point is that not everyone wants to be challenged at all times, and declining challenges is just a way of showing that they don't really want to do any challenges at that moment. Of course, there is always the option to disable the ability to be challenged for certain languages, but it is not very clear that that is a feature and could easily be overlooked by most users.

Another issue with that could be people creating two accounts, setting it up so that one account would challenge the other and have it be declined to earn easy XP. The way that this could work is that declining challenges doesn't show up on your feed, making the exploit practically unnoticeable just by looking at the account.

Answer 2

@Kami you are correct I never thought of the spammer. 5 points sound good to me without affecting the guy that declined