@naissun said in AFK Concede:
Of course, Focus/Cyanide would've to emendate the EULA to ensure everyone is, or at least should be, informed of the rule before enforcing it.
It's a bit harder to formulate a good description of the behaviour than it is to talk about excess concessions. No doubt it can be done, but.. what we're talking about is taking "excessively" long on your turns with the intent of griefing.. intent is a hard thing to judge. Also, how much AFKing during a match is required to qualify as griefing? In the OP's example the guy didn't completely abandon the game, he just let most turns run down the timer.
@naissun said in AFK Concede:
Me too, but people going AFK could also piss off other coaches and causing them to play less or even stop.
Oh, I'm not saying let AFKing slide... I'm all for cracking down on it and have been since before they quietly changed their stance on it (originally hero-dode said he refused to address the problem unless Cyanide wrote activity monitoring into the game). What I am saying is that one warning per coach wouldn't be letting the behaviour slide... it'd still result in a firm crackdown on it, but one that might result in less banning of people.
@naissun said in AFK Concede:
And how can we know banning a player from CCL/COL for a season would stop him from playing BB2 altogether?
We can't know, but we know that censured people tend to react severely to censure, especially when the activity they're censured in is not a required one for the upkeep of their daily life (and a lot of them even if it is). There's also a difference between "people who get banned for any reason" and "people who get banned for a single action without warning" as far as how just or unjust they are likely to perceive that punishment.
@naissun said in AFK Concede:
It would also be useful to know if going AFK is a common behavior (not from my experience but small sample and confirmation bias, yada yada...) so we'd know if those committing the act are numerous enough for us to be concerned if they were to quit the community.
You should totally hit up dode to investigate that. Maybe you can get the same number of pages of excuses I did back in December, 2016 
@naissun said in AFK Concede:
I believe they are not but obviously can't prove it as I have no access to relevant data.
You do, in fact, have access to the same data anyone else does. Mordrek makes all the CCL and COL season data available for download on his goblinSpy website. The question isn't access, it's are you willing to put in the work? Most people are not.
@vejeta said in AFK Concede:
I thought it was said before that going AFK is not against any rules so therefore would not be punishable.
That was yesterday. CCL admins, like women, are allowed to change their minds and act like they've always been consistent on the matter. Honestly, so long as their minds change in favour of doing the right thing, they can be as fickle as they'd like.
@naissun said in AFK Concede:
A punishment is not lenient by itself, it's lenient if, among other examples, an harsher one could've been used in its place.
Heh, we should cut off their hands and point out that it's a lenient punishment given that it could have been death! I'm not sure "it's all relative" works to assuage people's angry reactions to punishment, especially when received by people they don't honestly recognize as authority figures, like volunteer video game moderators... who are literally just other gamers.