I'm trying to give a Thumbs Down to a player, and recommend everyone avoid this person, but when I select the appropriate reason (This player quits or abandons the game on purpose) it says "It's this player's first time playing this game. Beginners cannot be given a red thumb during their first game.". But he's NOT a beginner!

I note from the forums that he's been caught cheating previously (using multiple accounts to boost his ranking), and before he red thumbed me (for trying to warn other players about his behaviour), I noticed he currently has 150 or so active turn-based games. I suspect a lot of them are in the same situation as mine - he's not taking his last turn if he's about to lose, and there's no time limit (my mistake, I was just trying to learn the game, I'll never join one of these with a stranger again).

This behaviour should not be allowed. I don't know if you can block him from starting/joining games with no time limit, or maybe you can manually end the games he's about to lose? Or change them to have a time limit? He deserves the ELO penalty.

It looks very much like he's just manipulating his ELO to get to #1, and maybe it's weird that it bothers me, but this kind of behaviour defeats the purpose of the ELO and I don't think many in the community would enjoy playing with someone like this.

Player (ElerCant): boardgamearena.com/player?id=86113340
Table (Bug): boardgamearena.com/3/bug?table=182430346

At the very least, there should be a way to impose a Reputation penalty. How does a player with this behaviour and track record have a 100% Reputation!?

I've had a look and he's doing this in many games, including boardgamearena.com/table?table=183521910.

He really should be blocked from starting/joining games with no time limit, he's abusing the ELO system.

Duplicate of boardgamearena.com/bug?id=28483

Let's vote for the one with most votes so far to bump one of these same ideas up and gather attention to the problem!