That's another thing that should be clarified. It definitely often happens that folks quit just after you hit the TEE OFF button. If that forced you to finish the round by yourself, that would be travesty.
I'll continue avoiding the random-pickup multi-player rounds, just as I have in the last few months. I just play ladder/league matches. Because now the real danger is here, that not only folks will quit on you, but you'll be publicly labelled as a quitter, too, along with them. Nivlac says this is only temporary, but I'm really not sure. My reputation score will suffer anyway, because we frequently need to play sudden-death holes for the ladders, which will now penalize both players and brand them as quitters.
Overall, today's product update is fantastic and I'm very happy about it, but the implementation of the reputation tracking looks like a disaster to me, which is what some of us feared in a number of forum threads in recent months.