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Well your idea does not seem to have been very well received, & you've had a bit of a bashing. I'll give my take shortly, just my honest personal opinion, & a few facts.
But first up, I have a question for you.
I have a bit of a fixation with players screen-names, & I try to figure out how they were arrived at. "tikay" is simple, it's phonetic for my initials. "MattBates" is the blokes name, "Macacgirl" is named after a burger (she loves food), & so on.
But whatever way I look at your screen name, I can't figure what it means. I tried it backwards - "gupakace" which did not work, & I just can''t figure what it might mean.
Care to, as Rory Breaker famously said, enlighten us?
You may begin.
I'm a bit of a stickler for "etiquette", in poker, always have been, but no, this is not, in any way, shape or form, poor etiquette.
Sky Poker should disqualify them? Well that's not a decision for me, but I'll eat my proverbial hat if they ever considered that. Why would they?
In by FAR the majority of cases - I'd say in excess of 99% - players permanently "AWAY" in SNG's are not sitting out deliberately, there will be another reason - usually, they have forgotten that they registered for it, or have connection issues. So they get punished already, by losing their buy-in. Be a bit of a nasty rub to auto-disqualify them as well, & there are NO RULES (or Etiquette) which forbades sitting out, be it deliberate, or otherwise, & this applies in both Live Poker & Online Poker.
Sitting out in the hope of cashing? They'd be nuts to think that made sense. At a guess, permanent sit-outs cash around 5% of the time at the very max. As we need to cash 40% or 50% of the time to be profitable in SNG's, that boat don't float. In a DYM, for example, with 4 left including a sit-out, the other players soon suss the situation, & in most (but not all) cases, they play accordingly. Mostly, we all get free equity.
Sky Poker response? I don't think they'll respond, as there is no case to answer, & no solution necessary to a problem that does not exist. There is no advantage whatsoever to deliberately sitting out.
I'll actually turn the whole thing upside down now, & do the Charlie Munger "obverse" thinking thing.
I feel sorry for guys who are, for no deliberate reason, sat out during the entirety of a SNG. It's patently obvious they would not do it deliberately (crimes need a motive - there is no motive here, as they lose 95% of the time). So when I see a player blinded away, it does not exactly fill me with pleasure. I want their money, yes, of course I do, but I'd far rather win it fairly.
I am sorry you got bashed up a bit by some of the lads, but, to be fair, the notion that the AWAY players should be disqualified is a somewhat eccentric one. IMO, of course. I can't think of a single poker site that would disqualify them in such cases. How would they know if the fella was genuinely "AWAY" but might re-connect or remember 4 or 5 Levels in, & join the game?
It would be a dreadful injustice to disquaify them, & no, it is not bad etiquette.
So there you go, that's my opinion - I think you are mistaken.
I just don't understand why it troubles you. Feel free to retort, as this chap said.