Gnomeregan and When is it Right to Kick?

Gnomeregan

Level 32

Ok so I must admit before I mustered the courage to tank Gnomer I ran a higher alt through the instance first. I think the trickiest thing about the instance is knowing your way around; so I did my research and worked out the path before I took the step to press “I”. While running through on Bree it felt good to have the knowledge that I knew where I was heading, which provided extra confidence in allowing to put on my 'tank face'. In fact afterwards I came to realise that it wasn’t so tricky after all.

Even though I knew where I was going the ret paladin jumped prematurely while the rest of us took the pathway down to the Engineering Labs to kill the boss down there. I am not sure what happened to the pally but that was the last time that we saw him. He remained in the group but we finished the instance without his help. The only deaths occurred during the fight where the mobs are coming out through the tunnels; the rocks came down and killed party members who were standing too close.

One thing that this particular instance brought up is the question of when it is okay to kick a member from the group. I don’t know about you, but when I go and do a random dungeon I ensure that I first repair my gear and that there is plenty of space in my bags. But it seems in the last couple of instances, including this run, that people were not ready and had to port out. In the Gnomer run one person ported out and then when they came back, another person decided that they had to do something else first and ported out too. (Maybe the question should be why aren’t we prepared when the random pops?) The latter was promptly kicked. Now I am the worst person when it comes to confrontation and I rarely begin the vote to kick a group member, however, it seemed that the first person’s absence was tolerated but when someone else decided to follow suit, that was not accepted. Yet when the previously mentioned pally jumped on his own and became lost, no one kicked him? So when is it polite to kick a group member? I have been kicked before on other toons and I know I Bree will face being kicked; I suppose I just have to try and not take is personally.