Not getting withdrawn from tournaments

In the most recent USCF 3/2 tournament, I signed up and forgot about it which caused me to lose by forfeiture. No big deal, if I play zero moves in the first round, I should be getting withdrawn. Except, it took 5 rounds for the server to withdraw me, during which I lost 80 CC blitz points and probably 100+ USCF

On one hand they're trivial online ratings that don't really matter, but at the same time it's annoying to not get withdrawn when I clearly should be. Has anyone else had this issue, and are these games going to be rated as forfeits or losses on USCF?

https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/-us-chess-32-blitz-5103751?&players=2

In tournaments I've been in, they're rated as forfeits.

The system doesn't withdraw you if you don't explicitly do it. If you also have your browser open to the tournament and you're joined, it will pair you.

If there's not at least one move by each player, it's an unrated forfeit for US Chess purposes. However, you should be withdrawing or closing out of live if you can't play.

It's curious there are other players who didn't play games in any rounds (treated differently?). Maybe they somehow withdrew but were kept in the cross table. You games should be forfeits and not affect your rating.

Yeah, you won't lose uscf rating

same

well I mean OTB is the only rating that really matters.

A rating only matters if you give it meaning. Doesn't matter what rating it is. It could be online, OTB, whatever.

Doesn't mean it's not annoying

alright thank you

If you close out of the tournament, without withdrawing, you stay in the live standings and site cross table. That also happens if you join and never get paired (by not being in the interface when rounds are paired or leaving without being paired and not withdrawing)