tweak/snooze_your_games

Maybe we should look into unifying this new snooze with the retire option. In this case 'Retire' would need to have an individual player option, and they would need to be able to unretire. This might be less of a 'retire this game' than a 'retire me from this game'.
The player should be marked as 'retired' in the game's list. Maybe 'retire' is not the correct term.

I don't see this significantly increase the rate of game death, and I can see how it could have the opposite effect. Currently a player would need to leave a game they are not active in, this would allow them to stay in the game but be able to ignore it for a while and not have it clutter up their dashboard.

Barely related but made me think of this one I dea I had and still really like. I think it would be great to have a new third role for games. GM, player and maybe Observer or something.
Functionally like player except without posting rights. Just so you get the new posts directly into your latest game posts feed. I'd say in public games, you should be able to apply for that and get in without needing GM confirmation but in private games, the GM would have to confirm you.

I dont see how the snooze idea would help with your situation of sitting out an adventure. You'd still get all the updates on your feed. You just wouldn't see the game on your front page

... Either our game is public and everyone can see what we write or it is private. Having a lurker that we don't know is there or not, would be ... odd.

I assume they would need to be accepted into a private game before they can lurk, for a public game they can see it already, so this just makes it easier for them to keep track.

Sure, that would need to be fixed as well. They user should be able to choose what triggers the unsnoozing --but that is my answer to most things: "user choice".

This should make the game behave as though the user was not in it, but treat it like a public game for them. That way it does not show in 'Your Games' nor in 'Latest Game Posts'.

If the user is subscribed to threads/forums they should behave as per normal, the user can control that for themself.

I think everyone in this thread is talking about a completely different version of how this feature would work

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I don't see this significantly increase the rate of game death, and I can see how it could have the opposite effect. Currently a player would need to leave a game they are not active in, this would allow them to stay in the game but be able to ignore it for a while and not have it clutter up their dashboard.

Agreed.