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The post was NOT about timed games in general, or slow players. It was about players who use this opportunity to claim a clearly lost game as a win. You think that other player should have gone easy on you and not boot you although you didn't stick to the time limit. But you're not going easy on th...

I really don't want to ride this point to death, but I will try one last time. The post was NOT about timed games in general, or slow players. It was about players who use this opportunity to claim a clearly lost game as a win. Not because they are upset with a game that took too long. Or because th...

I don't play long games because of people like you It isn't entirely clear you read and understood the original post. This is not someone who was timing out on every turn. It was on the very last turn of the game after which it would have been over. It's still allowed to kick them regardless, but i...

Is anyone actually reading the posts? It's not about patience. This was about THE LAST turn, after no time penalty was reached, to kick out players . ONLY to claim a win. Are you seeking for comfort or do you want the site rules to change? People are different. Some align with your ideas, others do...

For me ELO's are a way to connect players of equal strength Likewise time settings are a way to connect players of equal patience and amount of free time. Maybe the penalty for being booted shouldn't be more elo-reduction but instead a ban to play that time setting in that game for a while. Is anyo...

All very interesting points. I still think that BGA was intended to be a way to play BOARD GAMES online with many new friends world wide. The ELO didn't make it a tournament site. For me ELO's are a way to connect players of equal strength (maybe I am wrong with that too). Trust me when we play live...

To those who mentioned kicking players out is legitimate. We are playing board games here not professional chess or such. If you're at a group and the last turn takes too long, are you throwing the board and declare you have won? If you're opponent takes too long throughout the game, and runs out a ...

sorry I didn't check the Ark tread. My friends had that going on in other games too. Good to know that I was lucky so far and it didn't happen that often to me.

I've been with BGA for a few years. Maybe I just never was confronted with this, but I was used to asking people when they go over the time limit, if they are ok. I now had it a couple of times (and friends are telling me it happens to their games more often). I was playing Ark Nova (which is on the...