Why do people do this?

[Archisian]

What are the implicit and explicit agreements that you are talking about? People jump onto this website to either:

1. Play a quick game (real-time)

2. Play a slow, casual game (turn-based)

This idea that everybody is making some kind of agreement that is either universally applied or is somehow understood by the two parties playing in those particular games without saying it directly is just not the way it happens. The majority of people don't think this way when they jump on to play a game online. If it's real-time, as I said, I get it. You usually play real-time games because you have a limited time to play. For turn-based games, people play them because they don't have to worry about such time constraints. It's bizarre that someone who starts a turn-based game with that mindset then gets upset when someone goes over time. Makes no sense, especially when you can play dozens of multiple turn-based games at the same time! If you are someone like that, then you are someone who likes convert contracts, which is a personal problem than a problem with the other person.

Jesus Christ, seems like before we start every single game, everyone must read and sign a lengthy legal contract just to make people who think this way feel even remotely happy. Even then, I'm sure they'll find something to whine and complain about. You just can't win!

The agreement is obviously the time allotted for a turn...which is literally the first thing you see when clicking on a game to join, there's nothing covert about it. "Going over time" as you state is by definition a violation of an agreement, so why is it bizarre that someone would get annoyed by this. The only reason a person would get annoyed is because they're trying to show grace and not kick the player going over time.

The way the very system is designed contradicts your arguments, if there's nothing wrong with going over time, why would there be a penalty for doing so and being kicked from a game. You claim to know the reasons why people play turn-based, maybe sometimes it has to do with play time available, other times it has to do with pacing preference. If the agreement for pacing for a game is violated, makes sense that some people would get annoyed...it's not a lengthy legal contract, it's a single sentence, and it's the first thing you see when you're looking at a game to join.

There is a difference between simply being irked and then taking time out of your day to post to a public forum about it.

Going over time is not some gross and immoral act that requires discussion about. It's an online website to play games. This is not a big deal.