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The official solution doesn't leave the GM in control of anything.
Well, unless you count the little matter of being in control of who has membership of his game. Which is
all we say that the official solution does give him. Nobody can join or leave his game without communicating with him first. Except in one special case - a player who REALLY wants to quit the game without speaking to the GM can always do something to earn himself a site ban, but that seems a little drastic.
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In all of those cases absolutely any player can cause a game to die for two weeks while everyone else is wondering what happened.
Not really. In most cases the GM is smart enough to notice that a player is holding things up by not posting, and will NPC that player's character until he returns, or until the GM decides he isn't coming back and kicks him.
We give the GM total control over game membership (which is as it should be). What he does with that control is up to him.