People destroying lobby with map votes or refusing to start

if you ask me, voting for a specific map should be disabled in autohost lobby and just have the "!map" to vote a random map

people keep spamming weird maps that nobody wants to play and people leave the lobby

i mean, yeah, but either people vote a map that nobody wants, or they refuse to vote start, this goes on for several minutes and people leave lobby...

The admin of the room can force start a game

there is no owner in autohost lobby, please read the post before answering...

I think a solution might be to reduce how long votes actually last, currently each one seems to be 30s? Feels like an eternity honestly.
Maybe if it had a timeout after the last NEW player that votes of 5-10s or something. Then if nobody is voting it just ends. It can't be triggered by any vote or it would be abusable.


On a side note:
There was a room called "Tech-k Chickens" yesterday, which aioeieoiao (the host) managed to kill by refusing to change any options.

The way to change options by a vote is a massive pain if you are not the lobby host having to look up what the setting is then create a poll to change that option. "!poll setoptions chickenwavemult=2" (or other option) is not a user friendly command and is not documented in the lobby or helped by autocomplete. Ideally the options menu would create this poll automatically if you are trying to change an option and not the lobby host.

Also there was many people coming into the room with said name and saying to change the game to teams or future wars or whatever nonsense, trying to change the map, etc. Lobby voting is anarchy lol. Maybe a solution would be to allow multiple votes at the same time so the nonsense votes can be ignored while getting stuff done?

Grand claims IMO.

Is the issue that it's possible to cast votes or that there are bad actors vote spamming?

Bad actors tend to find multiple ways of being a pain.

So do we
let the heart decide where we go ♥
use community divides ♣
maintain order through moderation ♠
fix the !map command option ♦

Shrines where everyone is allowed to do what they want
often reveal the problem. ♥ ♣ ♠ ♦

imo these people are just spamming the vote in bad faith, because they dont want to play large teams and want to kill the lobby

We've added a system where you can't start a vote in a large autohost if your previous vote failed within the last 30 seconds.

If it's the mumble squad then report them. My impression was that random clueless people could spam votes, which reports would not stop. You should still report anyone doing this though, so we can see the actual problem.