[TheDopp]

But this shouldn't be that big of a deal on sop, since even in the absence of admins votekick can be used, albeit a temporary solution.

You poor lost soul.

It took me 3 tries to get a mic spammer vote kicked today. I like to believe in the regulars on the server, but 1. day crowd is stupid and doesn't have as many regulars on, 2. a large number of players (regulars included) ignore chat, 3. It only works in situations like mic spam or griefing, and even then not consistently. AFK kicks? Hardly ever. Stacking kicks (night crowd excluded for this, because it annoys all of them to no end)? Never, since everyone thinks it's StackOP. Griefing that isn't obnoxious to everyone (engies bulding buildings infront of other engies guns, engie building at original spawn on a 5 cap map when the team is trying to cap the last cap, etc)? Ha.

tl;dr - votekicking is a great system when used right, but it fails. Often. In part because the player mix being not 100% regular, in part because no one knows the rules (because they're not actually written down anywhere, nor discussed and change admin-to-admin) and in part because it's a easy to miss in chat.