Remove the votekick popup

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skips over trolling neckbeards

I completely agree. For one, I don’t want some annoying pop up in my face while playing. Second, and this will address the crappy argument that’s been presented a few times in this thread: if people really cared, and really agreed that the person should be kicked, then removing the pop-up button and making voting silent won’t change that outcome - now will it? Because presumably if they cared enough and agreed that the person should be removed, then they’ll all be independently right clicking the player and selecting “kick”. They won’t need a pop up.

I was in a group one time and the tank got vote kicked. The reason was “stupid hunter pulling extra”. We didn’t even have a hunter in the party. The person who initiated the kick typed “lol get rekt” and left. You can call this “just an anecdote”… But here’s the thing if you were actually intelligent. A bunch of anecdotes is called “data”…

OP is not arguing to remove the vote feature. He’s just asking for it to get out of our faces with some silly pop-up that players do in fact mindlessly click yes on.

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Yes, in a vote kick you can be kicked for any and all reasons. If someone doesn’t like you then they can kick you. I can and will say that vote kick was never and will never be used to kick someone without a real reason. 100%.

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Ahahahaha yes I’ve seen this happen a couple of times.
I don’t like Hunters so once I pulled from far behind and blamed the Hunter at the same time started votekick and he was gone before he could say anything to defend himself.
I got my run done, exp obtained.
The innocent hunter? Well… Let’s just say VOTEKICK IS WORKING AS INTENDED AM I RITE?

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So you basically agree that votekick can be abused into toxic behavior.
Thanks for your input!

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Welcome to wow. Stupid people play it. In that scenario, you were the only nonstupid one.

It was an exception though.

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Except removing problematic people isn’t toxic. :wink:

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But votekick isn’t removing problematic people.
Problematic people is using votekick to annoy players who did nothing wrong.

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Vote kicking removes problematic players 100% of the time.

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It’s not sketchy as if you make it difficult for the trolls to kick people with just two of their friends, then you make it difficult for legitimate groups to kick a singular troll.

But the next person would have a different definition to what that is. Which is why it is an abstract definition.

But you are also pushing it onto the GMs and people will open tickets for every time they get kicked out of spite. Flooding the ticket queue, wait times would escalate out of hand, then they’ll have to evaluate from an outside perspective on who was right and who was wrong and no matter what, someone will feel wronged by the GM staff.

The worst is if a singular troll gets kicked and they manipulate the system to punish the group who kicked them.

Your suggestion just opens up things to even more abuse as you empower the singular person to strike back at the group.

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I don’t like Hunters so once I pulled from far behind and blamed the Hunter at the same time started votekick and he was gone before he could say anything to defend himself.
I got my run done, exp obtained.
The innocent hunter? Well… Let’s just say VOTEKICK IS WORKING AS INTENDED AM I RITE?

Yeah man well three people agreed he needed to be kicked so there must have been some completely valid and irrefutable reason for it :joy:

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Ehehehe, it sure does!

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Those who got removed were problems. What’s your point?

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No? The Hunter in my case did nothing wrong.
It was I, I did something wrong on purpose, blamed the hunter who was playing well and HE got kicked and I got the exp.
Working as intended.

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So you were both issues?

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You’re arguing with an abusive person about taking one of their tools of abuse away. FYI it’s not gonna be a fun conversation.

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And since he is quitting - the source of most of the problems in dungeons will be gone.

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If I was an issue, why wasn’t I kicked?
If the Hunter did nothing wrong, why was he kicked?
Because everyone got a pop up in the middle of the screen saying “HUNTER PULLING AHEAD” and they all just smashed the YES button without even thinking.
Working as intended.

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Then what you’re saying is that it’s a group of problematic players. But it also proves my point of, trolls will always find a way to game the system to work in their favor and sometimes the most simplistic approach is the least abused.

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You weren’t kicked because they thought they got rid of the issue when in reality there were two issues

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How was the Hunter an issue?

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