Abandon Penalty Cooldown/Reset
I can't find any published info about a cooldown or reset of the abandon penalty after a specific time period has elapsed--other games I've encountered a deserter or leaver penalty in have integrated...
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CSGO did it pretty well. You would have exponential increases to your penalty for repeated offences (capping at 7 days) but your penalty would degrade by one tier if you were good for a full week. Certainly a single fault throughout a whole week is forgivable.
The point of these sorts of bans is to reduce the number of games that are disrupted by unreliable players, while minimising the negative impact it can have on people who always join with the full intention to stay.
Speaking as someone who has only had a time penalty once in my thousands of hours between BOTH games (power outage) I don't see a problem with it. As long as it's not a hard reset.
