According to the homepage I've "played" 2612 hours... But I haven't. Not even close... I can check that time against my brother for example, who has only ever played here in my games, and who I don't think I've ever played without. The actual value has to be closer to his 116 hours. Even if you factor in the preparation time as a GM, and procrastination time spent fiddling with tokens or the jukebox, there's no way my ratio of prep-work to game-time is something as nutty as 20:1. In an older, now closed thread on this same issue Nolan suggests that there are activity tests which apply to the playtime counter and prevent idle time counting towards it, but that system is either broken or it simply doesn't apply to a GM who's logged into their campaign. The only way I could possibly have racked up those kinds of numbers for playtime is if campaigns lingering in background tabs, that I haven't looked at for days, were still merrily ticking up the counter. The problem is that I now look like a vastly experienced GM. I'm not... I may not be a Babby GM anymore, but in truth I'd probably still be a toddler. As I look for new players in new communities to run some one-shots for, I really don't like how I'm unintentionally misrepresenting my experience this way. So my suggestion is pretty simple: "Play Time" for a GM should only start counting when there's actually a non-idle player in the campaign with them. Prep-time doesn't really speak to experience anyway in my opinion, I'd much rather have that value be an accurate measure of how much time I've actually spent engaging with players.
