Vote Kick abuse really needs to end.

[DragonSlayer45]

Since people want more information on if the player who was kicked was an afker or not, I am happy to oblige.

I can pretty much say, without a doubt, they were not AFKing in the cutscene. We waited inside the ring before entering the duty for about a minute. Before the first boss, the other Tank started it almost immediately upon entry, and the player in question came rushing out of the cutscene to join up. This happened at every point in the entire dungeon from until they were kicked. They only waited (albeit grudgingly) one time throughout the entire run, and we were waiting for less than a minute. And none of the cutscenes in Prae stretch the five minute mark as far as I know. If we were waiting for more than five minutes, then yeah, that signals a red flag that something is up.

They didn't say anything throughout the entire run, nor did they mention they were new. Since they earned that "Mapping the Realm" achievement and their gear wasn't the best even for a new endgame player, it was pretty much obvious at that point that it was their first time. The point where they were kicked was before the second battle with Ultima, and the cutscene preceding that is fairly long. (Maybe about a minute if you rush through all the dialogue but if you do that, you might as well skip...)

Anyways, my main concern is not the cutscenes. It was that a new player was unfairly kicked from a dungeon when they had done nothing wrong. Watching a cutscene, as far as I know, does not count as AFK/Offline/Harassment/Cheating and I already verified above that they were not AFKing. They just wanted to get this dungeon done. Run it how it was meant for new players to run.

This could have happened anywhere else, and if other people I've asked about this very subject are to be believed, it can happen anywhere else and does happen.