..and this is why there should have been no reputation tracking in the first place. Those of us with half an ounce of sense could see that there is no way to discriminate between types of disconnections. Therefore, the only way to penalize is to do it to everyone. You can finish the round to avoid the reputation black mark. That's the best that can be done, and even that ends up being pretty silly and tiresome for those who really do just wish to play with other people.
Perhaps next time people will listen to the 'elite' players of this game in the first place before demanding useless features that take away time and resources for the limited number of staff at WGT to fix other issues and implement more meaningful features. None of the top players wanted any of this reputation business instituted. Why? Because it's sophomoric to playing the game itself, and irrelevant to the host of other issues WGT has to work on. It even states in the FAQ regarding reputation tracking that "No, your Reputation Percentage will have no effect on your game. It is
displayed only as an additional piece of information about all players
in World Golf Tour" . Why bother spending time on issues that have no effect on the game? There are more important things to be done here than keeping track of something that every single player here is capable of keeping track of themselves with a simple piece of paper and pencil, or just having a decent memory. Now, no one is going to be satisfied with the system, so it's going to be the colossal waste of time many of us knew it would be.
As it stands, every moment spent reworking this 'reputation tracking' system is another moment that St. Andrews isn't being worked on, the swing meter issues aren't being worked on, and other new features aren't being worked on. Thanks a bunch.
Play with your friends, and don't worry about the reputation tracking. If you've spent any time here in the game at all, you know who is worth playing with and who isn't. If it's a random game you are after, then I really have no sympathy for what you might end up with. Random games have random outcomes, some of them being disconnections. I know, I've played a few hundred of them. I've met my share of bad losers, and I've also encountered some of the best this site has to offer. C'est la vie. You take the good with the bad and you move on.
My constructive opinion is to ditch the reputation system altogether and just leave it as it was. There will always be quitters in this game, no matter the penalty. Those of us who have been around for a long time have found ways to handle that and go on with the business of enjoying the game. It's really not that difficult.