votekick

English

Etymology

From vote +‎ kick.

Pronunciation

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Noun

votekick (plural votekicks)

1. (video games) A vote to expel a player, taken by the other players.
   • 1996 September 22, k...@mail.utexas.edu, “client identifiers/other stuff”, in rec.games.computer.quake.editing (Usenet):

     Is there some identifier for connected players, other than netname, such as a constant player number? (like player.number or something) I'm trying to write, amongst other things, a votekick, but since annoying people can continuously change their names and colors, it would have to rely on something else to distinguish players.

   • 2003, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (manual), Ubi Soft, page 44:

     Each player can only call a votekick once every five minutes.

   • 2004, Michael Knight, America’s Army: Special Forces: Prima’s Official Strategy Guide, Prima Games, →ISBN, page 199, column 1:

     open xx.xx.xx.xx?password=xxxxx: Join a sever^[sic] directly through IP where the xxxxx is the password playerlist: Useful to start a votekick on someone with weird characters in their name, you would then votekick ## #" […] to initiate a votekick

   • 2008, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, “The Rhetoric of Persuasive Games. Freedom and Discipline in America’s Army”, in Stephan Günzel, Michael Liebe, Dieter Mersch, editors, Conference Proceedings of the Philosophy of Computer Games 2008 (DIGAREC Series 01), Potsdam University Press, →ISBN, page 077:

     Votekicks [America‘s Army] Yes [Counter-Strike: Source] No [Battlefield 2] Yes

   • 2019 May 14, Ben Walker, “MORDHAU Review: Medieval combat in one of the best first-person melee games out there”, in Daily Star‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-11-03:

     • The game needs a better anti-griefing system to prevent team-killers, gamethrowers and votekick abusers

   • 2021 August 7, Robert Schmad, “What being a gamer has taught me about the limits of democracy”, in Washington Examiner‎^[2], archived from the original on 2021-08-07:

     The specific game we had engrossed ourselves in, a first-person shooter, features a "votekick" function that enables players to remove people from the game if the majority of those playing vote to do so. The votekick system, as with democracy itself, was designed with good intentions in mind. […] However, as one could predict, Roblox’s votekick functionality is often abused.

Verb

votekick (third-person singular simple present votekicks, present participle votekicking, simple past and past participle votekicked)

1. (transitive) To expel (a player) as a result of such a vote.

See also

• voteban