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Players who abandon games repeatedly should be banned

Banned, no. But I like the idea of a player's abandonment rate being tracked, and being able to filter players accordingly. It'll make it increasingly difficult for rude players to get games, hopefully causing them to find the resign button.
Quite right Clark,its irritating when they abandon the game,what you say should be implemented soon.
They are a pain... but I'd say it would be far better to ban people who are abusive, racist and so on. At least those who abandon matches lose their points :)
I think ban is a too drastic measure. Just flag them as game leavers like the cheaters flag. Once you get flagged you can't join games only create them and hope somebody gets in your game. Flag resets once a month. Sounds fair and cool to me.
In principle, I like the idea and I believe it should be implemented. Practically, it should differentiate people who lost on time while thinking and people who abandoned the game. Hopefully a good set of criteria to do that exist.
+1
It's very annoying to be confronted with this kind of attitude, especially in the pool 1+0, because it prevents you enter the current wave. Especially when the waiting time is relatively long and you just won relatively quickly.
Its really really lame when people "run" as soon as you join their game. This has started happening more since the win tracker at the bottom (which i like). People either don't want to lose their winning record over someone, or don't want to play someone who beat them previously. I don't understand that attitude at all!

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