I don’t think the idea is really to have the hours forward facing for customers or to have it effect your listing in the results. More so just to adjust notifications (when you get order alerts) and when your response timer actually starts counting.
In other words, if you get an order that comes at 2 am, you accepted the order at 8:30 am after you woke up, had coffee, etc. You should not be penalized in listings because it took you six and half hours to respond.
What people are asking for (I believe) is to set a reasonable time frame of when their response time should be measurable and have an effect in the search results.
Basically, just the ability to set an “I’m sleeping, don’t punish my hub ranking please” setting. I don’t think anyone intended for that to be visible to customers, just an internal setting on your profile. Maybe even better to call it Night Mode or something else.
The system does have some sort of delay now from when orders come in and text messages are sent, but your response time is not necessarily in sync with when the text message is sent.
LOL, I actually started to write about limiting the code to a certain timeframe for fairness, blah, blah, blah, and then I deleted all of it because I thought the post was getting too long and I did not think every tiny detail needed to be explained.
But yes, a limit would have to be put in place to stop people from ‘gaming’ the system. Just like there are minimum limits on pricing and certain other restrictions in place now, same kind of system. In order to maintain an ‘active’ hub one would have to adhere to a certain set of criteria for availability. Not all that complicated.
The objective should that the customer sees that you may not respond during certain hours but they are free to upload or message at any hour. Also that you don’t get penalized for not responding during these hours.
Now, what 3dhubs could do is let you select an off hours range say 6-10 hours that corresponded to your night time and this would also dictate the non-notification hours from 3dhubs unless you want notifications immediately. So I could pick 10PM to 6AM as the hours I am most likely to not respond but I could also select to have notifications immediately.
