voting system is stupid

Each !n vote makes the start-poll more difficult to pass. In other polls, the !n votes don't make it harder to pass.

This does cause awkward situations from time to time, where a couple of people prevent a game from starting. Usually this results in a roulette of map- and startvotes which after 1-5 minutes solves the situation.

People who dont want to play can make the passed vote game fail (for example they know they will be temp AFK or wait for friend and if vote passed they woudlnt play and screw the game even more)

Solution, as with everything, is to play smaller games with fewer players.

There are different reasons to vote !n
-you do not want to start the game in this setup, because do not like map/teams etc
or
-you do not want to start the game right now, because something prevents you from playing in next short time. (like have quickly do something, like close antivir update or start voicechat program or wait 30 seconds for a friend who has to restart lobby,..)

I think that is different and players need ways to signal that.
Like with the "ready up" button that was used before/is used other hosts/lobbies use.
(Players not readying up or votespam is similiar annoyance)
If you think about it, ready-status is the same as voting:
Except that you can always "vote yes" to start (=ready up) not only when a vote is active. And it does not spam the chat.

quote: So yeah our players are stupid.

"You do not like what i like, so you stupid."

quote: So yeah our system makes players behave stupid.

fixed.
further reading:

If saying something in chat worked then there would be no need for any kind of system. Neither for ready-state or voting or sync-checking,...

IMHO vote system is stupid because it's ridiculously easy to abuse (specs can vote for most stuff, no delay between different polls...)