Quote Originally Posted by Awha View Post
What confuses me slightly is your view seems to be based around a decent amount of what if's, what if they came from a bad group, had poor experience in the past, suffer from anxiety. Rarity of role is really enough of a reason to provide such consideration to a player of said role over any other role. Since as you said we will not know, if we do not know why should that matter? For all we know they were okay with being removed being as they were a tank and could instantly queue up and properly got a pop fairly quickly.
The 'what-ifs' have very little do with the points I'm trying to get across. They're just examples of what some tanks go through playing that role. I could also argue that healers have a lot of anxiety being responsible for the health and lives of the group, and DPS players always have to deal with no matter how good they are; there is always somebody better. Any which way you want to look at what players and roles are entitled to what, no one is entitled to make demands of another player. Especially when they're already doing what their role requires them to do. In the case of a tank; it's to engage enemies and hold onto aggro. Large pulls are an expectation, not a requirement of this role. So when we boil things down, this tank was kicked for not meeting the expectations of the group.

Maybe in I am in the wrong for not viewing myself a tank and inherently more valuable since supply currently does not meet the demand. Just that mindset does not mesh well with me, and it always bugged me when people would tell me that in novice network when I first started. Hell, I had one mentor tell me to not even worry about what the group wants, as the tank you are the boss. Just seems counter intuitive in group based content.
Whether you see yourself this way or not, you are more valuable due to high demand, low supply. It's just how such things work. You choosing not to be an asshat tank as a result of this privilege show humility on your part; making you even more valuable to the groups you join. But this isn't my point either. Everything, and I do mean everything in my posts is about players being courteous and respectful to one another. It really doesn't matter if you're a tank, healer, or DPS. Everyone has a right to use the duty finder, and the vote kick is abused due to "differences in playstyle". It's not cool. The vote kick should only be used in the most extreme cases which are laid out as the reasons when using this option. This tank that was kicked didn't do any of those, so what would you call it?