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Revisiting Kick: What good is it for?

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2/16/2020 4:29:30 AMUSrankShaman before revert after revert
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1 The kick command seems to be commonly used by salty players recently. It's seen a lot of use by certain individuals. Rarely, if ever, do these kick votes actually have a stated reason. So what's the purpose of the kick command, if what is being done to warrant a temporary ban from zk (effectively, cuz of 1rc) is not properly communicated nor standardized? 1 The kick command seems to be commonly used by salty players recently. It's seen a lot of use by certain individuals. Rarely, if ever, do these kick votes actually have a stated reason. So what's the purpose of the kick command, if what is being done to warrant a temporary ban from zk (effectively, cuz of 1rc) is not properly communicated nor standardized?
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3 Standardization is required in communities. There needs to be set standards that people can follow and measure perceived grievances against. Since the certain members of this community are neither communicating properly nor laying standards, these kick votes are doing absolutely nothing but removing "undesirable" players from the big game for reasons they themselves do not even know why. How is bad behavior supposed to be rehabilitated if a punishment is neither linked to a defined grievance nor properly communicated to alleged perpetrator? 3 Standardization is required in communities. There needs to be set standards that people can follow and measure perceived grievances against. Since the certain members of this community are neither communicating properly nor laying standards, these kick votes are doing absolutely nothing but removing "undesirable" players from the big game for reasons they themselves do not even know why. How is bad behavior supposed to be rehabilitated if a punishment is neither linked to a defined grievance nor properly communicated to alleged perpetrator?
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5 Sure, we can hide behind "removing griefers" and "TKers" but the actual use case for kicking those are next to 0 or when they DO happen to get called, they have near 0 traction unless its particularly bad. So why is this command allowed for random people to just suddenly call random kick votes for no communicated reason? For instance, while waiting for a game to finish, I saw a kick vote for the user Dhrama_khan. No reason was communicated for this kick. It just was called. I don't even know what he was doing wrong. 5 Sure, we can hide behind "removing griefers" and "TKers" but the actual use case for kicking those are next to 0 or when they DO happen to get called, they have near 0 traction unless its particularly bad. So why is this command allowed for random people to just suddenly call random kick votes for no communicated reason? For instance, while waiting for a game to finish, I saw a kick vote for the user Dhrama_khan. No reason was communicated for this kick. It just was called. I don't even know what he was doing wrong. So what does this communicate to the offender and what does that communicate to the innocent? Nothing. So what is its purpose? To be there "just in case" while it is being effectively abused by individuals of this community to facilitate their petty feuds?
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7 In addition to that example, we can see a spurious kick vote in @B836236 . This stuff's getting old.
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9 Honestly kick needs to [b]require[/b] a reason field (probably at least 7 characters) or be removed from autohosts entirely. All welcome should not be a place where we're just kicking people for lulz, blood feuds, minor offenses or abstract things like "playing poorly" (if that's even the reason, who even knows at this point). Since this is effectively a temporary ban from zk multiplayer, it should have a lot stricter requirements (along with severe penalties for misuse) or be outright removed. 7 Honestly kick needs to [b]require[/b] a reason field (probably at least 7 characters) or be removed from autohosts entirely. All welcome should not be a place where we're just kicking people for lulz, blood feuds, minor offenses or abstract things like "playing poorly" (if that's even the reason, who even knows at this point). Since this is effectively a temporary ban from zk multiplayer, it should have a lot stricter requirements (along with severe penalties for misuse) or be outright removed.