Invisible punishment?

Yesterday someone(@Smaggy hi?) set my rights to 0.

I guess, because I made !votekick ice2458 in a 2v1 game we were playing.
I had my reason to do this vote. This is was the single !votekick I initiated that game.
Replay: http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/271312

He was spamming solars, morphing his com and doing nothing else, actually after he made 1 wind, 6 solars, 1 mex and morphed his com to lvl 1 he was completely idle. He did not make any factory. He completely ignored label I put next to him.

Please note, my rights were the usual(1), so this just was a usual democracy vote. Yes I commit, I put my hand in kicking him but I sure this was necessary.

If someone plays and acts like a brick, team(yours/enemy) should have an ability to do !votekick. Nothing punishable here, this is not an abuse, this is just a vote that has a reason.
Single vote can't be considered an abuse when initiated by a player from the same team.

So my rights are 0 now, I can do only !y and !n
No clear explanation why, no any expiration date. Good job whoever it was.

On the other hand, just to put a clear line on how admins behave, let's consider this replay: http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/271337

Dr0ppy was talking shit about DDOS, but it were actually jokes, so I put my part(my phrase with "cat"). Nothing really harmful here.

Then he started using f*ck/sh*t in each his phrase, behaving like a 5 year old kid. We were playing and he was a spectator.
Then he did !votekick [TROLL]sfireman && !y and vote passed(he did it as a spec).
I got kicked during the game I was playing by a spectator without any clear reason. So I went and did a report.
Guess what? He left unpunished and in the same day I got my rights set to 0.

The difference is clear
1. !votekick initiated by a player
yea !votekick was harsh in this particular case, but how else I could bring his attention to help us win?
2. !votekick initiated by a spectator with a clear abuse purpose

by the way ice2458 still doesn't behave and listen his teammates: do not plop factory, making storages to steal team metal, morph com and do not use it.
consider this, for example:
http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/271545
Look at what he was busy all the game. Trolling?
He isn't newbie, he has played 300 games so far and is 30 lvl.

Looks kinda hilarious, isn't it?

Anarchid I did not report ice2458, unsure should I ever do this. He just wastes metal(on purpose?) and ignore everything :\
That was the reason I started this !votekick

But I did report Dr0ppy and he escaped unpunished, so I assume he can continue, right?

How did Dr0ppy get off with verbal abuse and kicking a player as a spec for no reason? Consistency is important so people know where they stand.

Actually droppy was just bugging me the other minute to reset his vote rights because oh come on it was the community who did it, he wasn't at fault.

It seems he's got a 1 day of mute... which was also invisible.

I think the implementation of !votekick is stupid and I hate dealing with it. As such my response to it will be somewhat random.

By far the worst thing to do is leave it as is.

A much better alternative is to remove !votekick entirely. Someone might ruin a game but they'll get banned so it is not a permanent issue.

The best thing to do (slightly better than removal) would be to fix votekick. Make it so players who are actually playing the game are the only ones who can call and vote it. The threshold for passing should be #Players - 1.

Removal of !votekick is a bad idea...
Though I support this:
>>The best thing to do (slightly better than removal) would be to fix votekick. Make it so players who are actually playing the game are the only ones who can call and vote it

>>The threshold for passing should be #Players - 1.
how then we will !votekick laggers in big team games?
It's almost impossible to get #Players - 1 vote !y

Removing rights from spectators is plain stupid, but teaching them lesson for abusive behaviour why not.

# players -1 is not a feasible solution for herding cats. # players on team -1 is better.

Thus entire team has to vote to remove you.

So many time someone is trolling and it's impossible to get enough votes for a kick, this then turns in to pause/unpause war. Complaints are filed. Teeth are gnashed.

Kinda OffTopic, but its related to kick too, so...

There is also some kind of a problem with smurfs. When ppl know that a player is a smurf and is going to troll/break balance/whatever they want to kick him from the host before a game starts. He gets votekicked and then he immediately rejoins. Room can be locked, but it prevents everyone except admins from joining. Chosing between disallowing or allowing everyone, including the smurf, to join is bad.

I think imprementing !kickban* which is well known from other hosts (I think Spadsium even has one) will fix it.

* - prevents a player from joining the room for 2 minutes.

Specs should have no voting rights at all considering they contribute nothing to the match in question