Player's time jumps from ~5h to 4 days?

[tectactoe]

Have never seen this happen before. I generally set all my tables to 24 moves per day to keep things moving, looking for other quick players in my time zone.

A person joined one of my games, made a move, and then on their next turn, did not act for hours. Their initial 12h turn time dwindled down to around 5h before making another move (which is fine).

However, when I made a move next, I noticed that their time to act jumped all the way up to "4 days" ?!

How does this happen?

Unfortunately, I also checked this person's profile and their reputation is around ~43%. Not great. Not sure if this is somehow related, but wanted to include it anyway.

[ohtarelenion]

That player used a Time Joker. A time joker grants +4 days thinking time in all currently running turn-based games (outside tournaments). Everyone has 4 of those per year. This is meant for situations when you go on holiday. You can find confirmation of this in the table log if you scroll down far enough.

[tectactoe]

Ah, had no idea about these. Thank you!

[Meeplelowda]

Unfortunately, I also checked this person's profile and their reputation is around ~43%. Not great. Not sure if this is somehow related, but wanted to include it anyway.

There are filters to weed out low karma players.