This was a very useful function.
Specing a player who is afk without the host-admin or a vote is pretty useful, very few reasons why an afk player should be allowed to stay in the play list, they can always return to playing list on return, leave them a notice theyve been speced if you must.
eg. if there a large game, 2 guys have gone to the shops and the original host is speccing and gone attend to a stove catching fire.
The rest must proceed with 2 lengthy votes to remove these players from ruining the game balance.
You cant 'train' people to not let this happen, it always will.
Also on launch, incase people miss the afk tag.
This prevents wasteful restarts, its a no brainer to me.
But, Im open to arguments to not have it.