Can we please stop people from joining a public lobby then kicking people without reason like its theirs?

It would be nice if that stopped.
Also People who dont make their lobby private then kicking people without specifying a reason is frankly just rude to be honest
But thats just my opinion.
Idk

Happens to me all the time and sometimes they don't notice me until im in their game and then I get kicked, very annoying.

I came up with a feature request to help with this:

By default, rooms made would be "friends only" rooms, where one does not need a password but to be on the friends list of the host (until the host leaves). This would limit max players to 10 or 12 players. One can change this by changing a setting under LOBBY in the lobby settings. The lobby creation window would title itself "Creating new friends-only lobby" with a checkmark to make it public (and thus changing the title to "creating new open lobby", vice versa for users setting the default to "public hosts"). Attempting to join a lobby marked friends only would put in a request to the host (similar to party invites) if they're not part of the friends list, and by default, these rooms would not show up for users not on the friends list (but would be top priority for those on the friends list). This would satisfy both worlds: the friends-only crowd no longer needs to put a password on their games while making it easier for them to find without having to dig through the UI as much.

Most new users seem to use steam and it is apparent their friends list seems to be synced with steam friends (at least from what I can see with personal tests). This means that the annoyance is only for:

1.) Users who do not use steam.
2.) Users who are using steam but are not steam friends with each other. (I suppose this can happen if one uses steam and the other uses steamless from itch)

Even then, since friends list is one directional, the annoyance from this is rather limited IMO vs the annoyance of having to kick random people who join your room.

TheHizard The reason your friends can't see passworded lobbies is that they have the "Filter out Passworded" option enabled at the bottom of the custom games list.
After disabling the option remeber to use the scroll bar to the right of the custom games list to scroll down to see all the lobbies since passworded lobbies are always listed after unpassworded lobbies, even if the unpassworded lobbies are empty

Additionally, consider putting something in the name of your lobby to specify that it is in fact, private