See that's the thing, I'm not the only one who is willing to bet good money that at least 90% of D/Cs are rage quits. I don't care how much of a perfectionist you are, you lost, play the game fair, take the loss and figure out how to not have it happen again. I'm all for a rating penalty for disconnects. As I've said most are rage quits, it just sucks to be the one who had a legit disconnection mid-battle. Too many people spoiled it to where punishing everyone is the desired answer to this problem.
I hate myself for doing it. But I get disconnected on more than I disconnect on people anyway. I'm all for a penalty for disconnecting, but I still will hate getting a penalty for disconnecting when I need to leave. AND THE BIG THING ABOUT IT IS, I disconnect way way way way way way way way way way way more because I need to go then because of me losing. My Shuckle (see sig) takes a while to set up, what with using power split, rest, and spamming accupressure 22 times before actually sweeping. That takes a while, and when my parents ask me to do something, I can't ignore them for ten minutes.
anyway, times I disconnected/got disconnected on:
-Shuckle was halfway through accupressure spamming against a sand veil (or whatever it was) sandstorm Garchomp. I was doing fine, and was going to sweep him eventually, but I had to go and disconnected. If I'm winning and have to go, a penalty will REALLY suck.
-down to the last poke, my Shuckle was in a pinch and I had to start sweeping early, he's gonna use his 5th rollout and my opponent is down to his last poke: a weavile. I had 33 or so HP and he's at red too. He's not power splitted and my accupressuring is incomplete (not at all +6, probably somewhere between +0 and +4 for each stat) [keep in mind I didn't have a team to support him] he uses night slash. I laugh at the 11 or so damage. I destroy him and he disconnects. It's a shame, I wanted that battle video.
-Galvantula vs. Scizor
Galvantula uses volt switch
does 40 or so%
switch to Whimsicott (lol encore, he won't X-scissor me)
Scizor uses flying gem acrobatics
-.-
I send out Bannete
he switches to Infernape
I use cotton guard
He uses fire blast
I die :P
I send out Galvantula.
THUNDER! (compound eyes :P)
he dies
he sends out suicune
THUNDER! 61% damage, 20% healed by sitrus berry
he gets paralyzed and can't move
THUNDER! lol
he sends out scizor
I uses thunder, he gets paralyzed (30% chance XD) hes down to red
it uses acrobatics I have like 6 hp left (so fragile)
he tries to use bullet punch (which is why he went first) but is paralyzed and can't move
volt switch he dies :D
he disconnects :(
I don't mind disconnects too much, because to me, winning doesn't matter so much as not losing (referring to my record here)