How "Vote to Dismiss" is designed encourages abuse.

[Donjo]

Before you make a grammatical correction to someone's post/topic, you should ensure that you actually read it correctly. The subject is "how the system is designed," not "the system." The OP is arguing that "how the system is designed" (subject) "encourages" (verb) abuse, which is perfectly correct and comprehensible. How the system is designed prevents people from being punished with a lockout, thereby encouraging abuse.

My post was in no way an attack on grammar. It was an attack on the use of the word "encourage" to shift blame away from jerks and to the game's developers.

Besides, there is no difference in this case between the "way the system is designed" and the system itself. If a system purportedly is designed to do something then it is also true that the system itself does that thing. A computer does exactly what you tell it to do. Nothing more, nothing less.

But, if you insist, let's look at it from the developer's standpoint. Can you really say that SE designed the system in such a way to intentionally make players want to be jerks with it? Absolutely not! SE has shown a history of looking at us players with rose tinted glasses. They really don't seem to see abusive situations coming. As the players being thrown a bone, it's the least we can do to not be jerks!