Kiva loans - basketing and expiration discussion

[Guest]

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[Skimmis]

The basket is a tool to hold our loans while we browse for more. How much time do we actually need for that? The whole issue can be solved if Kiva make the basket spit out loans if they're kept more than three hours, and then mark them as popular.

As far as i know, the basket is emptied after one hour.
So if somebody is worried about a loan expiring it would be smart to put the money in sometime before on the last day.
Problem solved!

[B. Right]

Yup! Dang! You're fast. 

[STC]

Well, if this is going to be tweaked what I'd like to see is the following:

1. No more than one third of the remaining portion of the loan to be locked up by any individual; and
2. One portion of $25 to drop out of the basket per 15 minutes that the basket is held; and
3. Portions cannot be added back into the basket until the portion originally held has entirely dropped away.

I know bugger all about coding so I don't know how feasible that would be, but it seems to me that limiting what can be basketed in the first place, ensuring the basket has a hole in it and preventing it being constantly topped up would solve most of the problem.

But what do I know?