[bzj]

A new feature which has appeared in the casual Bridge Club environment is an automatic prompt to hurry on a player who is taking too long to respond; after 2 such prompts the player is booted and replaced with a robot.
In principle this is not a bad idea, but (a) the time before and between warnings is a bit too short – some hands need more thought and planning than others, and this puts extra pressure on these players. Then (b) the removal of the “slow” player should not be automatic, but should perhaps be left to the table host.
Playing a casual “relaxed” game today I had to twice remove the robot and reserve the seat again for the original player; in one case they had been interrupted by a phone call, in the other they just had an awkward hand to bid.

[smerriman]

It's not new, it has always been there, and it's the most popular forum topic of all time

If you don't want it to happen, get the host to change the table setting to permission required to play, which disables timeouts.

[etha]

does the host have immunity from being kicked now? I am sat at a table where the host has been inactive for 10 minutes without being kicked or having the permissions set to permission required to play.