the activity requirements should be made clear in the OP of the game
obviously there’s some amount of reasonable-ness that’s going to be applied, like, if someone zeroposts for two game days we’re not going to say ‘but the OP doesn’t make it clear that that’s a justification for a forced replacement so you can’t sub them out’
If it is clear that someone didn’t replace out on purpose
and you still get blacklisted and you have to appeal
that only adds additional stress to the person who had to replace out, and creates a false pressure to stay in games, even when you really should replace out, just to not get this mark on your record
if you’re really concerned you can come talk to me right after replacing out, to preemptively explain the circumstances
yeah if someone is really not enjoying a game but can’t replace out or they get signup banned, it could lead to someone staying in a game they do not want to play or enjoy
also how are force-replaces handled
This shouldn’t be put on record fyi
This should be like if you leave a game midway in League or CS:GO you get like a 30m ban and it can’t progress any higher unless it’s done like, multiple multiple times
If I understood Arete correctly, it will stay on your record as blacklist (appealed)
force replacements would typically depend on whether the player who was force-replaced was “at fault” for the replacement
for instance if they get force replaced due to a game integrity issue that was the host’s fault, or another player’s fault, that wouldn’t count against them
if they get force-replaced because on D1 the only thing they posted was ‘hi’ and ‘wow there are a lot of posts’ and D2 they zeroposted, that would count against them
to avoid potential issues you should probably contact me after the game if that’s what happened 
I feel like most of the cases where an integrity issue is the player’s fault are, like, cheating
which is already a blacklistable offense
I would be a fan of a similar policy being created for hosts when it comes to canned games
@Arete
We can work on that
There are more changes coming up. We are trying to make things as transparent as possible
canned games are almost never the host’s fault
maybe either it didn’t get enough signups, game integrity issue, too much inactivity, etc.
If a host can’t play usually it just goes to cohost to finish the game.
canned games + other circumstances that might warrant a hosting blacklist are rare enough that we’re currently handling them on a case-by-case basis
