When do you consider it appropiate to vote?

I want to take this 5v5-game as an exemplary case:

http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=4989566

In as short as possible, the situation unfolded as follows: After the picking phase, three players of Team B decided to surrender, arguing that one of their teammates picked - due to some miscommunication - bonus territories other players were already in. I (Team A) made the point that this was not intrinsically a reason to give up a game as there are still possibilities to work with this.
Anyways, the players of Team B did not change their minds, their surrenders were accepted. One player of Team B remained though and demanded to vote to end. His reasoning was that the picks of this one teammate deserved a vote. I disagreed with this opinion - i think that bad picking doesn't call for a vote immediately and that the surrenders were premature.

If you are interested, you can read the whole line of reasoning in the public chat of the game.

My 'voting-policy' is to vote when one or more players of the other team get booted early (from 8v8 player games this gets a bit blurry most of the time); i.e. before the game is clearly decided or when a player purposefully sabotages the other team before the game is decided.

What is yours? Would you have voted in this particular game?

i wouldnt have voted.

more on vte etiquette:
http://warlight.net/Forum/Thread?ThreadID=6771

http://warlight.net/Forum/Thread?ThreadID=5621

http://warlight.net/Forum/Thread?ThreadID=5475

Edited 10/13/2013 14:16:32

Razeev, you were quite correct, no way were you suppossed to surrender in that position, their communication fault, if I was on that team I would have just surrendered and left like the others on that team did.

no vote unless opposing team asks, and only if theres someone i know in the opposing team. vote if my team is the victim. ta-da!

clearly a vote.
no fucking turn played.
what are you here for, collect auto wins or play a strategy game?

just because most of us wouldnt ask for a vote in a case like this, there is no reason to deny it and not move on.

So what if a turn was played? The team lost on picks and rage quit - they deserve a loss from that.

Sure Arun, that happens, but not every time. So punish those who had a player drop out because of a bad connection?

I'm with myhand on this one. Even if it's rage quit, BL'em and be done with it.

Edited 10/14/2013 07:39:28

@Arun

Arun: What color does the sky appear?
myhand: It`s daytime, so it appears blue.
Arun: So what if it wouldnt be daytime? Your argument is invalid.

agreed with myhand point, i would voted.
playing the Whole match you just wasted 40 minute. i have the feel that is more important for win then play a close match.

Edited 10/14/2013 11:22:10

Exactly, just vote and get outta there. Waste of time, not a challenge and probably didn't learn anything. I don't know how you can enjoy that.

All you get is nice stats.....

There is never a good reason not to vote if someone is asking you to. A win is worth exactly nothing, so is a draw, they are equally desirable outcomes.