When does quitting activate?

Sat in lobby searching for players…

Sometimes you can press B and return to menu, but after a few seconds pressing B does nothing.

At what point does returning to menus become a DNF or quitting? Is it during the game? Is it at the point when you can’t return by pressing B?

Why? You ask. Well, sometimes we have lost people in the fireteam during the searching for players for some weird reason, sometimes we played against some very good players and got our -Yoink- handed to us, then the classic “retrieveing data” but I want to drop out of that search to avoid being smashed again, sometimes it’s my last game, and I am checking my scores but forgot to drop out.

My GUESS is at the point pressing B no longer works, but it is a guess and with the Ban Hammer being so unfair I don’t want to fall into its trap. (whole different argument I know. I like the banning, but have been banned for lag - I have NEVER quit)

You should only get quiting punishment if you loaded into the game then quited I think it is?