Why have Vote Kick if it's almost entirely abused?

[Marou]

We need more options for vote kick and no timers.

I joined an SV last night with my DPS (trying to hit 50 on BLM). From the start our tank was DC'd. So, after 5 minutes I vote kicked him, we waited another 5 on a replacement...

I asked my party vote kick me, so that I could bring on my pally and at least take them through the dungeon. It worked, and I was back in a minute later. We got a replacement DPS (a bard) who almost immediately disconnected. There were no vote kicks left (other person on cooldown), they did eventually come back, and we finished anyways.

I'd like to see options like Disruptive, or Lazy, and a cooldown removal. It's not fair to ask a team to carry people who won't even make the minimum effort to perform their role correctly, and this should be a valid reason for dismissal. You can try to talk and reason with them, and the average response is either vitriol or silence.

I can certainly see this being toxic in Pug 8-man,s but those are hella toxic anyways.

[Zophar]

I'd like to see options like Disruptive, or Lazy, and a cooldown removal.

Honestly, disruptive or lazy could easily qualify as harassment IF you try to reason with them and ask them to change their behavior. If you've taken the diplomatic approach and they have refused to behave, that is a case of harassment. The key is never be aggressive. In the event that they try to challenge the vote kick as wrongful, you don't want to appear antagonizing or harassing yourself when the GM's investigate.

On another note, another one of my favorite abuses of the vote kick is the player who roulettes into a dungeon that they don't want to do, and rather than leaving and taking the penalty, will just afk for 5 minutes to get kicked so they get no penalty at all. If they're dumb enough to actually SAY that's what they're doing, I'll go with the harassment kick and follow it up with a GM report.