How can I combat this type of harassment?

[Silvanoshi]

I am grouped with a Paladin that is not responding to any communication --- period. He is standing in the middle of Castrum Meridianum and isn't doing anything. 3 people have vote kicked him, and he just REJOINS US IMMEDIATELY using the join in progress option.

While Castrum Meridium isnt THAT hard, he is abusing us/the game and we can do nothing about it. Why is this acceptable?

[Bluevann]

I am grouped with a Paladin that is not responding to any communication --- period. He is standing in the middle of Castrum Meridianum and isn't doing anything. 3 people have vote kicked him, and he just REJOINS US IMMEDIATELY using the join in progress option.

While Castrum Meridium isnt THAT hard, he is abusing us/the game and we can do nothing about it. Why is this acceptable?

>_< Ugh, this happened to me with a WHM in Brayflox too. Kept kicking him and he'd just keep coming back with In Progress. Kicked people should get a penalty before they can use DF again, really.

[fanservice]

Wow. Didn't think about that. Maybe something as simple as a kicked person not being able to rejoin the instance they were kicked from will fix it.

[Sapphic]

>_< Ugh, this happened to me with a WHM in Brayflox too. Kept kicking him and he'd just keep coming back with In Progress. Kicked people should get a penalty before they can use DF again, really.

Would increase level of abuse and make it more of a pain for those kicked for the wrong reasons (watching CSs when first time for example) then having a lock out timer? Salt in the wound.

Wow. Didn't think about that. Maybe something as simple as a kicked person not being able to rejoin the instance they were kicked from will fix it.

Much better.

[Foo01]

Sounds like you are trying to harass a 1st-timer tank trying to watch cutscenes. They need to disable vote kick when people are watching cutscenes, just like you can't bring it during combat.

[Parodine]

Sounds like you are trying to harass a 1st-timer tank trying to watch cutscenes. They need to disable vote kick when people are watching cutscenes, just like you can't bring it during combat.

Perhaps he's standing around doing nothing...oh I don't know...outside of a cutscene hoping for a free myth ride?

[Evil_Betox]

Sounds like you are trying to harass a 1st-timer tank trying to watch cutscenes. They need to disable vote kick when people are watching cutscenes, just like you can't bring it during combat.

I'll be honest with you, in my experience i never came across a group that would kick someone just because they are watching cutscenes, most of the times they are just left behind or in some very rare cases they wait for them.

But if they aren't in a cutscene and are just afk far too long without warning the group then i would just start a vote kick, a quick "brb" doesn't take more than 2 seconds to type. There's a couple of people that tries to get a free myth ride in the main scenario roulette without doing literally nothing, some are even ninja and put /follow in the healer and only comes back in the last boss to exit the dungeon, yep i've seen that.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

Sounds like you are trying to harass a 1st-timer tank trying to watch cutscenes. They need to disable vote kick when people are watching cutscenes, just like you can't bring it during combat.

I'll prefer to disable vote kick if the dungeon validates that this person is doing that content for the first time. There're people that would just stuck in a cs dialog for the sake of trolling, knowing that they won't be kicked.

OP: You can send your request to a GM, they'll evaluate if that user deserves a punishment or a small talk, based on that event.

[RavinousKurohi]

Sounds like you are trying to harass a 1st-timer tank trying to watch cutscenes. They need to disable vote kick when people are watching cutscenes, just like you can't bring it during combat.

They aren't talking about people watching cutscenes. It shows it in the party list if the person is in a cutscene so you know if that's what they are doing. Also, they wouldn't keep re-queuing to go afk again over and over again and just stand there since the cutscene wouldn't play again.

[Sove92]

Reporting them is the only option, unfortunately.

Sounds like you are trying to harass a 1st-timer tank trying to watch cutscenes. They need to disable vote kick when people are watching cutscenes, just like you can't bring it during combat.

No, this is about a tank idling in the dungeon, just leeching for free myths (go afk, let others do the dirty work for you). This is why we got vote kick in the first place, leeching was extremely common before it. This is also why SE can't remove vote kick, if they do, leeching becomes a standard practice again and people beg SE to put the vote kick back in.