I was playing on "aloha uswest pinpoint" when a griefer came on the server. I initiated a votekick, as any responsible player should, and was shocked to see how few people actually bother voting. Even after 20 minutes when our entire side of the map was COMPLETELY flat, we couldn't kick him. Eventually, the entire map was flat and he started spamming blocks everywhere -- the whole server was ruined and everyone left. It was a disaster.

I made note of all of the problems I noticed with the current votekick system:

   ◘ A lot of players don't pay any attention to the chat, so when a votekick comes up they don't vote. This is a problem because it allows cheaters to continue ruining everyone else's fun with no fear of being kicked.

   ◘ Trolls use the votekick system to try to kick innocent players, and it is very difficult to identify who the troll is unless they make a typo while votekicking.

   ◘ Some players will vote for anything, even if the person they are voting against hasn't done anything. While their hyperactive voting is good for kicking cheaters, it's bad when trolls initiate false votekicks against innocent players.

   ◘ Some players maliciously ignore votekicks. They see the votekick and don't even bother to press 't' and type '/y' despite the pleas of their team mates. They can do this because there are no negative consequences for doing so.

   ◘ Often times players will initiate votekicks against cheaters but won't specify WHY they're votekicking. This causes confusion and a lot of the more cautious voters won't vote because they think that someone is abusing the votekick system.

   ◘ The votekick doesn't last long enough to be effective. Psyspades's time length is a lot more effective at kicking cheaters from the game.

   ◘ Newfags can't votekick.

I did a search and saw that there aren't any good votekick suggestions on the forums, so I made an attempt to address a lot of these problems.

http://minus.com/mdNV82o#1f

What do you guys think? I think I got everything covered (except for the newfags, but what can we do about those?). Do you guys think this will solve our votekicking woes or will this simply create more problems? Also, do you have any things you would like to add?