Thinking about it I wonder if giving the vote to kick window a timer of just a few seconds before you can vote would help?
I swear a ton of people just hit “Yes” to get rid of it without ever reading what’s being said.
Whether this story is real or not, unless a player is afk or has DC’d, I always select “no” on the vote kick.
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I don’t agree
Honestly I’m on the “reduce debuff to 15 minutes and go back to removing it after the first boss kill and putting the onus on Blizzard to handle the drops on early bosses so as not to incentivize a degeneracy problem so they can implement a timegating punitive solution” side of things.
But I think the Op’s story is fantasy as well.
The system IS fair to him. If his parents don’t want him talking online, buying him an MMO was THEIR mistake. Communication isn’t really optional in group. I’m sorry for that kid’s luck, his parents sound like they need an attitude adjustment. But Blizzard is not our mommy, it has no business parenting anyone. The system is fine.
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Agreed. This sounds manufactured.
Make the yes vote take two steps – a “yes” and a “confirm yes” while the no vote only takes one step. That way players who are just trying to get the kick notice out of their face will be inclined to “no” because it doesn’t require them to have to take an additional step.
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There’s a practice in spam administration called “tar pitting.” When something is flagged as potentially bad once, typically large amounts of messages from one email server to a lot of addresses on your server, the email goes through, up to a certain number. However, beyond that, the emails aren’t discarded, they are just delayed in a holding queue for longer and longer times.
It should be possible to use tar pitting for debuff timers on vote kicks. You get kicked once in a certain period, say 24 hours, and no debuff, you get kicked a second time, then the debuff kicks in (probably no reason to go more granular or more conditions than that).
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okay, come on. that’s not remotely true.
Heh. I’m going to be hesitant to do it unthinkingly though. If I’m in the wrong context, say on my hunter, “yes” is “Intimidation, move forward, spin left” 
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I didn’t read all the replies so idk if it was mentioned somewhere but I can’t help but ask to all those saying " a 14 year old wouldnt cry and have his mom talk blah blah there wouldnt be a no talking rule blah"
have yall considered the kid could possibly be heavily autistic or mentally impaired? it’s not uncommon u kno.
anyways, my biggest take away from this is that i would have kicked the person who wouldnt stop talking before he even had the chance to kick the tank. I despise those people, who insist everyone needs to say hello and make forum posts saying “back in mah day we had to walk uphill with no shoes to the ole summonin’ stone and we all talked and became friends for life and everyone needs to do the same now, modern wow just aint wat it used to be i tell ya what they tookk me jerb”
KICK everyone like that. instantly. bye bye boomer
“boomer”
This guy right here is why vote-kicking is good…
Lmfao right? I was thinking it was just the same guy pretending to be his mom 
I think LoL would like a word with you
Yeah, why kick them from group when you could kick them from their entire account /s
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I have learned from the true savages on here and reddit that if someone is making a fuss about kicking so and so that if you actually start a vote kick on that person first that most people will not read it and kick them out. Sometimes you’ll even get a trio or something to blindly kick out one of their own. So there are times when people not reading the kick message is actually a good thing
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still dying on the hill that kicked players should not be debuffed.
Sorry not sorry.
Before someone comes at me with the whole “well if a tank doesn’t want to do a dungeon…blah blah”
Then allow dungeon blacklisting AND/OR award the same bonus XP/goodies for queueing for specific dungeons instead of only doing it for the randoms.
Blizz needs to get off their ego trip about some of their dungeons just being miserable to do. (they either take too long or have some stupid gimmicky easy-to-screw up mechanic that makes them bite).
Yup, I hated Occulus. I dont care if that makes you mad. It wasn’t fun and it took them too long to finally make those drakes scale with your gear.
Ageism is not okay.
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I have the same rules with ny kid. His acc is restricted, tbh ibwonder if it was my kid, makes me want to call my house lol.
the leaver penalty shouldnt apply below M+
if you are not actually costing someone a key/messing up a run with actual stakes by abusing leaving, then there shouldnt be a leave penalty. you shouldnt feel trapped in a group during casual content, and you shouldnt be punished with a half hour time out for getting kicked in casual content either.
the leaver penalty makes sense in M+ where people are abusing it for mechanical reasons, but not in anything below that. they applied a low IQ blanket solution where they needed a more targeted and thoughtful one.