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@Silene: Sure, some people value things like respecting the time and preferences of the people who create games with clearly outlined expectations and some people are selfish ***, I get that, but I don't get why there is so much reluctance to actually do anything to remove the *** from games where t...

I'm looking for anyone to explain why there's so much difficulty around this issue, whether it's a slowpoke or a slowpoke apologist. Thus far, I've yet to hear anyone muster a rational argument for why this sort of behavior is so common (either the pushback in chat or the slow play in the first plac...

Actually, Meeplelowda, I am happy to kick people out of games when they're slow. I do like to engage in the chat first, and ask if there's something going on that's causing the slowdown. This also gives them a chance to pick up the pace. 100% of the time there's pushback from others at the table who...

If a game is set up with the setting 'fast, 8 turns per day' and someone is playing 1 turn per day they are, by definition, playing slower than the game is set up to play. Do I want to be the time police? I do not. Do I want to have to have a debate about whether to kick someone out of a game 90% of...

I genuinely feel like you didn't bother to actually read the post, you just pasted your own prior negative experiences on top of it. I don't bully or harass anyone. I don't play live games, I don't care about my ratings at any of the games I play, and I don't knock people out of games to win. Mostly...

I recently left a game that was playing much, much slower than it was set up to play, and I was scolded by the auto-mod. I come across this very consistently: someone creates a game and sets it up to play quickly and during a certain time period. People join this game and then play during 'off' hour...