I must be in the minority - or just really really lucky. I've been in a total of three groups that have vote kicked since I came back to the game. This is out of well over a hundred or so instances. One - we kicked a tank because he was loudmouthed, obnoxious, and very, VERY abusive. He was bad enough that we were willing to wait out another tank.

The second and third times were to remove a DC'd player after giving a reasonable amount of time to do router resets and etc. In fact, there was one time that someone tried several times to initiate a vote kick and the others blocked it because we wanted to finish the instance and the person initiating was being a tool.

So, with these experiences in mind and experiences over the years in other games - I do personally feel that vote kick isn't abused with anywhere NEAR the frequency these forums would have us believe. I think that many times folks who come here complaining about being kicked really ARE just jerks.