DF Penalty from withdrawing from a party in progress should be removed

[loreleidiangelo]

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Reporting someone for harassment is an entirely separate issue from a 72-hour instance lockout for not JUST people who are kicked for trolling, but people who have repeated d/cs from instances, or are kicked for underperforming, or kicked for whatever reason, as the person I quoted suggested. The onus shouldn't be on people to prove that they're "not guilty", there should be proper action taken for people who ARE. Also, I'd highly advise you edit your language, as I've been temp banned for strong cursing before and all it would take is one person reporting you. (I snipped your quote if you choose to edit it.)

I'd like it if someone gets kicked 3 times in an hour that they'll get a 30m penalty.

As it stands those those who do the "right" thing by willingly leaving are the ones who get punished, yet those who manipulate the system (trolls, harassers, DF fishers, etc) are rewarded for such behaviour. They also changed the system so that the kicked person can't return to that party that kicked them ... for the most part.

If you have legitimate disconnection issues then being kicked and eventually having a 30m penalty will benefit other players in that they won't have a DC'ing player to potentially ruin a dungeon/trial run and that DC'ing player can then try to do something with their issue (if they can). I know when I am having issues with my internet I'll leave a dungeon asap to try to fix an issue.

Even applying a 30-minute ban to someone who is kicked at all isn't that bad. It'll suck for the occasional innocent caught in the crossfire, but it's much easier to shrug off an unfair 30-minute lockout than it is to shrug off an unfair THREE DAY one. (As well as the mess of "appealing" a GM to fix the screw-up of what shouldn't be an acceptable system in the first place.) It's not as though misuse of the kick system can't be reported, though admittedly most people aren't stupid enough to admit in a tangible way that they're abusing it.