Consequences for player behaviour that makes the platform worse

Briefly describe why you think this would help you as a Game Master or player on our StartPlaying:

As a GM, it is extremely frustrating, inconvenient and demoralising to have players join my listings, only to then drop not long after. When I player joins my listing (especially if it takes the table from ‘Pending’ to ‘Ready’) I will start to get the final pieces in place and prepare for the session. All of that effort is then wasted if the player then drops.

This past week, I had a player sign up, join my Discord server, and then leave 5 hours later with no explanation (listed reason ‘my schedule changed’). There was no consequence to that behaviour, leaving me and the other players ( who were excited to start) despondent that we now had to wait again.

I propose three ideas:

1. that there should be a consequence for players signing up and dropping from a pending listing within a short time frame (at the very least within 24 hours of signing up). It doesn’t have to be punitive - something like an exponentially increasing timeout for signing up to other listings would be a good start and would encourage player accountability.
   
   If a player has made a genuine mistake within that window, then they can contact the GM (or have a way to ask to be removed, so there is more context as to why they are leaving other than a dropdown - there might be something the GM can do to help).
   
   Once the window has expired, then the play can leave without consequence as they do now.

2. GMs should be able to see on a player’s profile how reliable they are (e.g. how many times they have dropped out before a listing is Ready, how often they have had payment issues, average time they stay in a campaign) so we can make informed decisions about adding them (or managing the risk for instant signups).

3. Players who manually leave a listing within 24 hours of the first session starting should be charged that listing’s fee, with 25% going to the GM, 25% going to SPG, and the remaining 50% added as credit to the remaining players.
   
   The player can still contact a GM as above to be removed to account for extenuating circumstances.

I feel these are not unreasonable and in line with other industries that deal with bookings. Thanks for considering!