This is the end.

[RiceisNice]

I appreciate people trying to clear things up on my hand but I want to get my words in anyway.

I am not taking anything out of context.

You are infact, taking my words out of context. I don't necessary disagree alot of the things you say, and infact I a do agree with some of the statements, being willing and more considerate in teaching people in DF. The thing is, none of this is present in OP's situation. You're putting your point of view into his scenario (that people should be respectful) and throwing mine out of it and applying to every other circumstance (people need to grow a thicker skin and accept criticism). The matter of fact is, neither of that is happening (people are being overly critical to the point of harassment and not being accepting of criticism) in OP's situation based on what we've been given.

What we have is
>OP plays ballad when it's not needed
>People call him out that it's pointless and lowering his damage
>OP tells them to "dont tell others how to play"
>Specially states that he stopped talking
>Mentions that he turned off ballad at some point
> "All hell breaks loose" and he gets kicked.

All of this has to happen after at least 5 minutes as passed.

I also see this notion from Rice about what is reasonable to expect from players in a roulette group (based on their role), and how that feeds into the vote kick function. Make no mistake, I do think there are many completely valid uses of a vote kick. But I'm seeing some in this thread equate the OP using ballad incorrectly to him stand in a corner picking his nose during a boss fight

Even if he was using ballad incorrectly, people have pointed it out (in a nice way or not) and he effectively told them to "don't tell people what to do". That is usually my personal threshold for not wanting to put up with people in DF (either through vote kicking or straight up leaving) because at that point, they don't particularly care they are slowing down the party, and are probably purposely doing it anyway now that they (now) know it's bad There's so many holes to fill in, that I just cannot side with OP with how little information he's given, and especially how hostile he had gotten to both his party members and to the people in this topic. We don't even know if he actually did turn it off as soon as they mentioned it or right before he got kicked. And the worse of all is, because he mentioned that bolded part, it's a player dispute so unfortunately, GMs really will not take action on it.