Thank you SE!! (DF lockout)

[Noxifer]

is the df lock out for some time or rest of day?

They haven't said anything specific regarding the lock-out, which leads me to believe it'd be the same lockout as the penalty for leaving an instance (i.e. 30 minutes). That's just my guess, though.

a whole 24 hours for saying no 3 times .. i do like this but also dislike this, 3 times is a very short number, [...]
or hey maybe a after the 3rd time you get incrusting blocks 3: 5 mins 4: 10 mins 5: 15 mins: etc

I think I can say with some certainty that it's not going to be a lock-out until the dropout reset. Why? Because the wording was "Withdraw from the Duty Ready confirmation window or allow the window to time out without making a selection three times or more in one day". If you get a lock-out for the rest of the day, you're not going to withdraw more than three times because you won't be able to queue up again after that. So the "or more" part wouldn't even have been there.

I like your theory about an increment in duration of lock-out. It would also be an interesting way for them to do it, but I'm still leaning more towards them taking the easiest way out and applying the same lock-out that already exists as a penalty instead of coding in a new one.


And for those of you that worry that the penalty will apply if you withdraw from queueing, the patch notes state that you have to withdraw/time out from the Duty Ready confirmation window (see above). Which means when the queue pops, not when you enter queue.