So votekick >abuse< is practically allowed?

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In another MMO that shall not be named, when you initiate a vote kick a dialogue box appears where you can input a brief reason for the kick that everyone else will see when you hit confirm. It would be nice to have something similar, be it part of the default options or even an "other" category you can choose. It would help remove some confusion during kicks, as well list the reason right from the start to minimize time needed to investigate potential abuse of the system.

[Zephyranthes]

Vote kick abuse is too hard to police and SE will be getting thousands of complains. The warning that it's punishable in the window simply serves as a generic warning.

[Atomusk]

WE ARE THE GMS!

[kaynide]

In reply to the "I play how I wanna play" users:

This game is very tuned towards specific roles doing specific things (rotations in most cases). There is no (or very minimal) "I play how I want to play" in this game. If you do paladin, you use shield oath and you use halone combo as your bread and butter. Black mage can do fire 3 -> fire 1s -> Blizzard 3 -> fire 3 loop. Nothing fancy and can certainly be improved..but it is enough to do your job.

Nobody will care if you flub a rotation, but if you are 50, you really need to sort out your role.

[kaynide]

...furthermore, if you are getting kicked more than the odd random time you need to consider that you might be the problem.
A) Manners go a long way. Simple politeness will cause a lot of mistakes to be forgiven.
B) You are not entitled to anything. Even if the other guy doesn't need or cant use the item lotted, he has every right to lot it in DF. Don't whine about it.
C) In DF, you are not there to RP or screw around trying new things out. Save that stuff for your own time or with friends.....which brings me to:
D) Make friends. It is an MMO, there is bound to be at least 3 other people you can get along with..and if not, reread this post and consider why not.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

The "different playstyle" statement raises concerns with me when it comes to speedrunning. I do not like doing it, I do not feel comfortable doing it. I go at a brisk pace, not pausing much between pulls. I do not feel it's fair if I get voted out of a DF because I refuse to play in a way I'm not comfortable with.

[Alyko]

I was once votekicked in CT of all places because one person didn't like me being a DPS warrior. I complained to the GM as it obviously fell outside the afk/offline/harrassment trinity, and got the standard form letter with "Grief Tactic" capitalized.

So, feel free to votekick anyone you desire. They won't know you did it. GMs won't do anything about it. The warning on the window is a bluff.

[Charisma]

I dont really see why someone would abuse it, waiting for a new dps sometimes can be worse than a bad player.
Never have been kicked as well, just like a friend of mine, but thats probly not because we are both decent players, more like because we are one of the "lucky" players that never experienced it 8)

I was once votekicked in CT of all places because one person didn't like me being a DPS warrior. I complained to the GM as it obviously fell outside the afk/offline/harrassment trinity, and got the standard form letter with "Grief Tactic" capitalized.

So, feel free to votekick anyone you desire. They won't know you did it. GMs won't do anything about it. The warning on the window is a bluff.

I dont see how this is not a legit reason..
Ive seen countless of votekicks without a reason in ct, but so far no one ever was sucessfully kicked from my group, i doubt that 4 people just accept kickvotes like no brainers.

[kaynide]

-snip- didn't like me being a DPS warrior.

I'm assuming a lot in your situation, so apologies if I'm over-assuming.

In CT there are 6 tanks, and arguably it is pretty boring and a lot of places you can indeed do the DPS thing as warrior at MANY parts. Because you were kicked I have to assume that you were not doing your job at certain key parts and attention was drawn to you for that.

Bottom line: when it's time to Tank, that's your main job full stop. If you say "well I wanna DPS, you Tank" then you're in the wrong.

If you were doing any kind of DPS (not the odd swing) during the Behemoth battle, you're in the wrong. If you're not tanking KB or IG then you're on a tower. If you're neglecting your tower then someone else has to do it (Healer or another DPS)..and you're kidding yourself if you think Warrior DPS is putting out more steady damage than an actual DPS.

[Bamboofox]

If you were doing any kind of DPS (not the odd swing) during the Behemoth battle, you're in the wrong. If you're not tanking KB or IG then you're on a tower. If you're neglecting your tower then someone else has to do it (Healer or another DPS)..and you're kidding yourself if you think Warrior DPS is putting out more steady damage than an actual DPS.

I completely agree with the rest of your post, but I just wanted to chime in that if you're on a tower closest to Behemoth or the IG, there's enough time between tower pops for you to do three attacks (a full combo, basically) before you need to run back and smash that button. >.>