[peterallan]

I was playing on BBO last night. I had no trouble logging in in the first place, but once the game had started (someone else set up the table and invited me to join it), the table disappeared from my screen and the other players later told me that I had been replaced by a robot. The organiser invited me to join the table again, which I did. This happened three times in the space of 30 minutes.

After this stopped happening, I was later logged out of BBO by the system, again part way through a hand. I can imagine that this could be due to an internet problem, but being replaced by a robot mid-hand is just bizarre.

Is there anything I can do to stop this happening again?

Peter Allan

[paulg]

Normally people get replaced by a robot because the system decides that you are away from the keyboard because you have been too slow. There should be a warning first.

The table host can alleviate this behaviour by setting the 'Permissions required to play' table option and putting "+slow+" in the table description.

[mycroft]

Totally off-topic, but I suggest that this typo become the real term for "losing your place to a robot": "eplacing".