If it was set so you could not be timed out whilst your vacation setting was on rather than depending on opponenets being honourable it would go towards stopping alot of resentment .
Originally posted by Serendipity but timebans make games go on longer too
Yes, but only for a limited amount of time which both players have agreed on. If you could use your vacation flag to avoid being timed out, you could prolong the game forever. It would make the time controls totally meaningless.