Good ideas. =)

The first bit would allow students to make fake non-Action comments, which might get confusing. (And I quite like the way that first-comment-as-action discourages idle chit-chat from students who haven’t taken an action yet.)

Not sure about the second bit. It’s good for not requiring close attention from the Head, but gives a strong incentive to leave your Class Action until the very end of class, which you know the exact time of.

@Kevan: I already find the fact that there’s no syntax for what constitutes a Class Action to be fairly confusing. The fix was to stop students who accidentally post what they believe to be valid class actions (when the student is actually not Free) to be unable to participate in the lesson once they become Free.

The second was to prevent the Head from essentially holding students’ class actions hostage by refusing/forgetting to end a class. In my mind, the benefit of waiting until the very end of the lesson to perform an action has been negated by Disruption only targeting the three most recently commenting students.

I felt that in the current version of Lessons there was a reasonable expectation that the Headmaster would close an open Lesson after ~24 hours have elapsed. The last two classes that have run have both been left open for approximately twice that time (at the time I’m writing this comment, Divination is still open).

If anything, this proposal isn’t intended to make less work for the Headmaster; it’s to make it so that students don’t have to check that their previous class has actually ended before they make an action in their next class.

I support. Divination has been open for almost two days now, which is a bit over the time limit. Sure, it says the Headmaster may close the class, but I’m at the point where I almost want to wait for lessons to open up before picking one - knowing that I might be stuck in it for a couple of days.

My vote stands: FOR, although I agree that fixing the form of Class Action (if only that you must say that you are STUDYING or DISRUPTING in all-caps in your comment, leaving the rest open for flavor) is a good idea.

Per Kevan’s second point.

CoV per Kevan and the new proposal

I feel like the class has spoken here.