AbigailII: I think it would make more sense "if a player stays inactive for 30 days", since anyone can lose a game by timeout (especially with fischer clock, or no vacation games) and still being active in the site, and just happened to time out in a game, but can play in all the tournaments (s)he has signed up to

El Cid: Note that a player isn't banned - just removed. If he/she is still active, he/she can sign up again. But it gives them a moment to contemplate whether they may have too many games going on.

AbigailII: Sure, but I take my example, I often don't know which tournaments I am signed in (it happened to me some times that I don't remember signing in for a tournament and get surprised when it starts and I have an increase on my games).

For some reason. that I found relevant at the moment of signing in, I entered a tournament, if by any chance I don't connect to the internet for 2 days, and have a game with 1 day 12 hours no vacation, I timeout in that game, and get removed for a tournament that I signed in about half year ago (which I really wanted to participate), but I don't remember anymore the name of the tournament or even that I signed in, so I won't participate. This could of course be prevented if the user received a message saying (s)he was removed from a tournament, but I don't know how that would turn out in invitation only tournaments. (I know this may be a little confusing)

Considering that you're suggesting that, because of a particular user (or at least I think so), and considering that she does not log in in about two months, I think that my little changing in your suggestion, would become effective only in users that won't really play, and not in those that had an accidental timeout

El Cid: I'm not thinking about any particular user. I know who you're thinking about. Believe me, she isn't the only one - I've created a lot of tournaments, and I can see from my mailbox when someone is mass timing out on games.

And I find the "there's this tournament I really, really want to participate in, but I cannot remember signing up nor its name, nor when it starts" not very believable. If you cannot even remember that you signed up for it, you won't miss it either.

But don't worry. I only made a feature request. When was the last time you saw any request here actually be implemented? ;-)

El Cid:
One possible way to address this problem would be to have the site keep track of the percentage of forfeits.  If an option was added to the tournament page that would allow selection of a maximum forfeit rate for players entering the tournament.  It could be percentage of forfeits or a maximum number of forfeits for a set period like a month or year.  IF the site tracks forfeits over a limited period like the last year it is possible for players to recover from their past high forfeit rates by routinely completing games.
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