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?

[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.

[Dijana]

Reporting them is the only option, unfortunately.

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.

You know I havent ever actually come across a group who has kicked someone for watching cs's (ran ahead or told them to hurry up/skip them, sure, but never kick), but I remember all too well those few months before vote kick was introduced, so I agree with this.

Trying to get tomes early on was such a colossal headache because you'd have people, particularly tanks and healers, afking and just letting people do it. Sometimes they werent afk though, sometimes they just refused to do anything and gloated about how there was nothing anyone could do about it. I definitely don't want to go back to dealing with that.

[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.

[Foo01]

Reporting them is the only option, unfortunately.

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.

That is your deliberate misinterpretation. You folks are always afraid of leeches. Perhaps you should request that SCH never apply leeches to you. In any case you see this kind of vote kick abuse:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...y-needs-to-end.

Give the 1st-timers a chance to watch their cut scenes. They only see that once.