Vote to Kick is Poorly Suited for its Intended Purpose

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@Solarae-barthilas

The vote-to-kick system is in serious need of an overhaul.

It’s possible that sometimes it is used for its intended purpose, policing toxic behaviour in LFG.

However, I’ve only ever seen it used to punish people who are new to the game, dungeons or make simple mistakes. The leaver debuff just adds insult to injury to people who are kicked. I understand why it was implemented but a little more thinking should have been put into how it works than has been in its current state.

By keeping the system the way it is, just like the automated reporting system Blizzard is passively endorsing toxicity in the game. I don’t seriously think anyone at Blizzard wants people to be toxic, but that desire is not being reflected in the tools they give the players to use to moderate unwanted behaviour in the game.

There’s no punishment for abusing the vote to kick system and there’s no recourse for someone to contest being wrongfully kicked. This creates a massive power imbalance in the system. Understandably Blizzard having manpower dedicated to contesting a 30-minute debuff is asking a lot.

A better handoff solution needs to be put in place. It starts with there being more steps involved in voting to kick someone.

Firstly, the reason for kicking someone should be on a drop-down menu and the game should validate that you are in fact doing that reason that’s been selected it initiates a vote for other players to interact with.

• If you’re being abusive in chat, it should check the chat log before it pushes the vote to other players.
• If you’re AFK, it should check if your character hasn’t been in combat in the last 5-10mins then push the vote to other players.
• If you disconnect from the game, there should be a 3-minute grace period before the vote is presented to other players.
• If you disconnect more than once the grace period is reduced by half each time.
• The players who vote should have to select the character’s name from a list
• Should be asked to confirm two or three times not just accept once and move on.
• If the vote fails because the condition is untrue the player who initiated the vote should get an automated warning.
• If they get three warnings within a week for abusing the system, they lose access to the vote to kick system for a week or however long is suitable.

I’m sure there are experts in the industry who know better than me and have better solutions than the ones I’ve proposed. Hire them if you haven’t already and give them some resources to improve your moderation tools. As it stands its infuriating.

Thank you for reading my post.

Okay but no.

@Vrakthris

The Vote to Kick system was designed to give players who used Looking for Dungeon/Raid some agency over who they are grouped with. If they have someone in that group that isn’t meshing, for whatever reason or no reason at all, they may choose to remove them.

i don’t defend people kicking others over petty reasons, but any reason is allowed.