How does the red thumb exactly works

[Noname199]

As I could not find details about this, I was wondering if someone could explain to me here:
I understand, that a red thumb prevents you from beeing matched with this player again in the future.

But what happens, if you manually join a table for several players, where a player with a red thumb is waiting? Are you not able to join? Will the player who recived the red thumb be thrown out of the table?

[Jellby]

You're not able to join, unless you're invited (and maybe not even then if you're the one who gave the red thumb).

[OHDaniel]

What good does it really do to give a red thumb to payers that play king makers. When a player receives some number of red thumbs (say 5), everyone should have the option to avoid these players.

[Meeplelowda]

When a player receives some number of red thumbs (say 5), everyone should have the option to avoid these players.

Public red thumbs (the ones you have to give a reason for) used to work something like this (there would be a karma penalty). The problem was that they were being abused to target people who actually hadn't done anything wrong, so now it only functions behind the scenes to trigger a private warning to that person.

Release 13th September 2023 230913-1000

• reputation: Red Thumbs are now advisory only, causing no Karma drop and
  the personal display banner for high Red Thumb percentage players has been reworded

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