Lysti:I don't think I can take credit for that proposal.
I gave you credit because you made an excellent point. You said, don't let anyone quit their ranked round. (Without a small penalty, I add.)
And that is exactly what WGT should implement! After all, if your Internet connection breaks down or real life issues interfere, your current status in the round is saved on the server. And so, next time you log back onto the site, the server should pop up a screen for you: "Welcome back! It looks like you haven't finished playing your ranked round. Do you wish to complete that round now, or do you wish to forfeit it?" (We already get to read a similar message today.)
If the user selects the Forfeit this round option, the server might pop up another window saying: "This was a ranked round and forfeiting it will incur a small penalty for you. Do you still wish to forfeit the round?" Yes/No
I hope that most of us can agree thus far that this would be the correct procedure. The only question remaining is, What should be the penalty for forfeiting a ranked round? As Snaike pointed out, if the penalty were the increase of one's average score, this might be misused by sandbaggers. Therefore my alternative suggestion for the penalty: the penalty would be that the next ranked round played by the player would not count towards that player's average score, and would be marked with an asterisk in that player's Score History. Just by looking at someone's Score History, you could see, simply by the number of asterisks posted there, if that player was a frequent quitter or not.
claremoreblue: Spamming, is constantly posting about the same old chit faterson!
We are not posting the same things. We are debating proposed solutions on how to resolve this issue that is clearly troubling lots of WGT users, and damaging this online golf game. I feel that definite progress has been made in recent months in discussing the quitters issue. It's arrogant of you and Snaike to say that just because you don't happen to care about a particular issue, that issue is unimportant or nonsense. If it were unimportant or nonsense, there wouldn't be countless threads in these forums about it. And you shouldn't blame users for the overabundance of threads, but rather the absence of forum moderators; all the quitters threads should have been merged into a single thread a long time ago, and pinned in one of the subforums, so that those of you allergic to discussing the quitters issue could easily ignore that single thread devoted to eliminating this detriment to the game.