That's what I thought. They've both been logged in, but also it's been over a week so should have moved on should it not?

@LoveDove I'm not sure it's such a big issue that requires changes in the program. I don't recall it has ever happened to me (played over 100 games online) to need a forced pause/unpause and it doesn't look these requests are so frequent, with hundreds ongoing games.
Further, the system you propose looks odd. So if Friday you ask a pause for the weekend "I'll be back next Monday!" then Saturday morning a "majority" of players could unpause the game and play without you? LOL

Yep. Either system depends on the good nature of peers. And you obviously are joining the right games if you do not need a forced unpause. I saw maybe 6 either current or recently.

We need a "timed pause". But as I try to avoid large code changes, and kestas is quite busy it won't happen soon. It's something that got some discussion on the dev-forums some time ago and everybody knows it needs a better solution.

It's unpaused. Thank you.

Well, everyone knows except Guaroz apparently. :-P But thanks!

Not apparently, LoveDove, actually I didn't know. :) I never cared about it maybe because it probably never happened to me in over 100 online games (on 3 sites). If I did understand correctly, it happened 6 times out of 56 to you? Well probably I'd be more sensitive to it if this was happened to me. But consider that in July/August/ChristmasTime these requests are more frequent than in other months because of holidays.
Last, a question. Do you get so bothered typing 2 lines to the mods, as the TO did here, when it happens?

"Do you get so bothered typing 2 lines to the mods, as the TO did here, when it happens?"

I don't know what that means!

And no, I don't know how many pause / unpause requests I have seen abused. Off the top of my head I recall eight recently. However, I do not know how many have occurred in my illustrious VDip career. I know that I frequently make requests on the behalf of other players. In fact, I make them more frequently than I think should be necessary in a small group like we have on this site. I would expect more fidelity among players, but that's just my opinion.

I agree about the fidelity thing because, although this site's players are very good, people can always get better.

I asked whether it's so boring/bothering (sorry, english is not my language) typing 2 lines and ask help to the mods. I'm sure that if you can finish 56 games in 6 months, you can find the time.

My point is that when the problem is human behaviour, human control is better than any automatic rule.

Ah, I see. Yep, I messaged the people involved, messaged MODs, messaged my friend's cat... It's no hassle to message someone, but it doesn't help if the offender fails to respond.

Try the Forum instead of your friend's cat. The mods usually don't fail to respond. As you can see here, in this thread, the game was unpaused in less than a day. Actually, in a few hours, this time.

I would encourage you to scroll through recent topics to see just how frequently these matters arise.

I can scroll back to Jun 2010. And to 2009 in another site. That's why I said that this is just a summer issue.

However, I'm sure Oli has got better stats than us. If he says it needs a solution, he must have good reasons.