They Wanted to Kick Him Because He Didn't Talk, Then His Mom Messaged Me

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As a parent myself, not every parent out there actually understands how communication in games function. They will try to curb things that are outside of their influence by giving rules to the one person they can - the kid.

Yeah I agree, teach them how to handle online communications. Teach them how to block someone. Turn on the anti-swearing function. Etc. there is ways this could have gone better, but I can also see why it happened too.

Hopefully the person grief kicking was reported as it’s really the only other action other players can take.

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There’s nothing to report because there’s no such thing as “grief” kicking.

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It’s an unfortunate situation, but communication is key for a tank. He should pick a different role and adapt to his environment.

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Kicking someone for not talking when you are doing fine is absolute peak toxicity.

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I have to agree, a button to kick makes kicking way too easy / low-effort. Making people type “yes” will force at least a few more of them to actually read what they’re about to do and who they’re about to do it to.

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This story looks like a Reddit karma farm thread. I highly doubt someone would make the effort to hunt someone down for their teen after (if) he got kicked. 14 year old at that.

Yea….

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If the parents didn’t want him talking in game they would utilize parental controls. Instead of waiting for him to slip up and penalize him. You can’t whisper someone with parental controls active. Possibly true story but reads more like AI generated drama. Could be made into one of those animated Youtube videos. Need to think of a good clickbait title. Actually the title is pretty good.

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Exactly why we need a means for the kicked to appeal it for being abused.

Like all good systems, a few jerks force this sort of thing.

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Do you often believe everything you read online at face value? Cuz that’s what your response says.

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Jesus Christ, that poor kid has some strict parents.

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As somebody who isn’t paranoid skitzo, yes. When it’s not obvious misinformation.

Even if she were lying, statistically it’s probably that this exact event has occured hundreds of times.

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I just turn off their chat entirely and set them loose on leveling pugs. Both they and I don’t seem to care.

I don’t think my kids actually want to talk to WoW players. They have more productive conversations on Roblox anyhow.

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The thing that probably upset him wasn’t the vote kick itself, but having only 2 hours to play and a full quarter of that being wasted by the deserter debuff.

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Someone told me they had an earthquake somewhere but i didn’t see it so it didn’t happen :upside_down_face:.

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What’s funny about your post is you think you have some sort of “got ‘em.”

Earthquakes can be proven by turning on the news…

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I occasionally kick, usually it’s just biting. Goes back to gnawing on Myzrym’s arm

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Yeah but “dumb reasons constitute most vote kicks” can be proven by running some dungeons and lfr.

I still don’t believe the OP’s story but I do believe that most attempts to vote kick have poor reasons behind them.

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The story may or may not be true, but it certainly highlights some of the problems with the system. I like the idea of making it take longer to vote yes than no (countdown before yes is made available or something). I know I would have been upset if I had been in that kid’s position, my mom was also very strict with game time when I was growing up

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That’s a bit harsh considering that sometimes communication is a necessity in this game.

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Yeah it’s not a necessity in a level 20 random leveling dungeon. I put up the barriers that I see as productive and when possible I actively play the game with them instead of just throwing them to the wolves.