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Players who abandon games repeatedly should be banned

Free21 there are also those who leave when they are losing ,leaving us to wait while the clock ticks till we win.
I don't have a problem with marking people who cut and run as long as there's a way to tell the difference between that and:

a) someone who forfeited on time while genuinely thinking.
b) someone who was interrupted by some IRL event beyond their control (e.g. police kicking in the door, child returning from play with javelin in its head, etc.).
c) someone who disconnected from the server due to an uncontrollable local issue (i.e. their Internet connection dropping, local power outage, computer exploding, etc.).
d) someone who disconnected from the server due to an uncontrollable non-local issue (i.e. network routing issue/router flapping, ISP filtering, DDoS attack, etc.).
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They have to eventually!

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