Add option to set upper limit of time spent in waiting room

[nspo]

While I understand that you do not consider #60 a bug, I think it would still be a great feature if you were able to set an upper limit for the time spent in the waiting room of one location. I had a situation where the waiting room took much longer than 10 min to go away, and I'd think most users would want to continue to other locations in that case.

[nspo]

Just saw this: #1 (comment)

Can you explain why aborting the waiting room wait after e.g. 10 min might lead to more shadow bans? If so, the default could still be set to inf or some high value

As a note: I think not caring about the waiting room makes most sense if you use the parallel workers and always check the same location. If you use sequential crawling, it will stop everything :/

[alfonsrv]

Hey @nspo, thanks for your PR!

Waiting rooms are not infinite, so I don't see a benefit of adding an upper limit.

Possibly increasing shadow bans is just an assumption. If you make too many requests too aggressively and simply bounce between centers it might stick out – the bot is currently geared to blending in with the crowd.

Every added setting should solve a challenge of the platform. This is because new users need to rely on believing exactly that, assuming every setting is there for a reason – so there's an obligation to not add / promote unbeneficial use-cases. The comment asked for a way to skip the location straight away if a waiting room appeared. Adding a setting like that could thus lead inexperienced users to believing Waiting rooms should be avoided at all cost, instead of just being a minor inconvenience of the overall process. On a technical level, this could've also ended up in the bot only jumping around centers indefinitely, causing for the upmost frustration for users besides the possible increase in shadow bans.

BR, Alfons

[alfonsrv]

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