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The best way to avoid being penalized for being AFK is to simply not go AFK. If you need to take a break, it’s usually best to log out of the game entirely. Additionally, some games may have systems in place that allow players to temporarily go AFK without being penalized, such as by marking themselves as “away” or “busy” in the game’s chat system.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What does AFK mean in gaming? AFK, an abbreviation that has become ubiquitous in gaming, is an acronym for the phrase “away from keyboard”. The term, originally used in chat rooms and forums, has now been widely adopted in the gaming world, and is used to indicate when a player is not actively playing the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gamer"},"lang":"en","translations":{"en":3174},"amp_enabled":true,"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganknow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganknow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganknow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganknow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganknow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ganknow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5208,"href":"https:\/\/ganknow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/5208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganknow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganknow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganknow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganknow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}