When/Why did you vote kick?

[Geist]

Same as most people above: either because the party member in question ends up as unreachable (disconnected), or in the instance of somebody acting in questionable ways (aka, being a jerk / disrespectful / actively hostile and harmful) towards the rest of the party and other alliances.

Never a matter of skill, but of practicality and mutual respect.

[Linnaete]

Aside from the understandably mundane reasons, I enthusiastically had a trollish Dragoon kicked out of our World of Darkness alliance yesterday.

There were a couple of new folks in the raid and this guy was deliberately yelling out false instructions on how to handle boss mechanics. Angra Mainyu? Keep accumulating ireful or sullen stacks he said, and then stand in FRONT of the boss. That is the win button! Totes!

We got rid of him before the next boss. While we're sure the new folks were smart enough (or at least familiar enough with the basic strategy tips) to do the opposite of what the guy commanded them to do (and embarrassingly, he broadcasted these false instructions to the whole raid...), we were not risking it for the upcoming bosses, and nor were we standing for this moron.

Kicked him for trolling and for leeching. He admitted also that he was not going to bother with his rotations. He was just planning to auto-attack his way through the whole raid.

[LunaHoshino]

Queued up for WoD with a few friends and some PUGs and got a MNK who would deliberately die and then go back to start so he would get locked out of the fights. The first time we saw it happen, we all figured it was a mistake, because who hasn't derped and hit return to start because they thought it was a raise?

When it happened at the next boss and the boss after that, however, we realized what was going on and vote-kicked him for leeching.

[Carvaka]

If a party member isn't particularly skilled at their job or at boss mechanics, it usually makes things more fun for me. The truly epic runs are never smooth, I don't understand why uneventful dungeons are so desired.

I have to agree with this. I do enjoy a seamless run, but those wild crazy ones are the runs that stay with you. They also tend to be the runs that throw out 'hero' moments.

[ZuzelDixon]

Voted to Kick twice , First was when I was in the Dungeon and the Tank decided his Class needed to wear robes, Maybe he thought he was some sort of jedi master but it did not work.

Second time was in WoD Once this player Died they would refuse Rezz and Run to the Boss and Sit outside and Claim the loot , They usually lasted about 1 minute, After 3 bosses constantly doing this he was kicked.

[MXMoondoggie]

I will initiate vote kick or vote to kick mainly for one of two reasons. Leeching or blatant trolling. I don't have much patience when people start playing games stepping out of boss fight barriers or going AFK when a boss comes up then somehow returning when it dies. Trolling is just pointless too and a waste of everyones time.

The only other time is when one person is a hindrance to everyone else because despite repeated explanations on what to do and people trying to help they are just not getting it and making the same mistakes over and over. It's not fair on everyone else.

[Elaithe]

I kicked a bard today because I thought he might have been a bot and I wasn't sure if we could honestly carry him. He also may have been just a new player as it was a low level dungeon and his highest level was 36, but I wasn't sure. He was playing mage ballad until he ran OOM, we tried to explain to him why he shouldn't do that and he just didn't respond.

On top of that he wasn't doing boss mechanics in any way, just going through is rotation on the boss until he died to mechanics. We tried to explain things to him but he didn't respond even once, I kind of felt bad because maybe he was new and just was too shy to say anything, but at the end of the day I wasn't really sure we could complete the dungeon with him since we were all leveling new class/jobs and no one was really able to carry.

[AskaRay]

I've kicked a couple times for AFK, a couple times for trolling but by far my favorite was...
when I first tanked Tam-Tara, at the beginning of my tanking so I was still nervous and relatively not too good. Go into the dungeon, two new players. Cool. I know the dungeon so that part isn't hard. Tell the rest I'm new at tanking, one says "cool" or something. So far okay...
until the lancer runs off and pulls everything up to the boss room.
Yeah okay. Being new I figured he just didn't know not to do that (I've met people like that). I ask him politely not to pull ahead of me, since I'm still learning how to tank. He responds by calling me terribly bad names. So like. Fine. I decide, fine, die. I don't care.
Well as soon as he dies he runs right back up and pulls the mobs again.
At this point the other members of the party are tired of this, too, so they tell him to stop so we can go on with the dungeon. He calls them names, too.

This is right at the beginning so we have to deal with this for five minutes before we can vote kick him. After we got a new DPS the rest of the run was fine.

[Urthdigger]

I have a list of players I will vote kick just on principle. Basically any absolutely terrible players who, upon being given some polite advice, respond with "it's just a game lol." Very true, but I know of no team game or sport where people tolerate someone being a complete and utter shit, and I am under no obligation to play with people who are. Said list is rather small atm, but only because I started it last week. This kind of behavior is stupidly common.

[NorthernLadMSP]

AFKs, disconnected for more than 5 minutes, or people who are very rude and/or verbally abusive.