"You are allowed to team kill on kill maps. When it comes to course maps you may only kill people with grenades."
In my opinion, this rule should be reevaluated, in the sense of smoke grenades. There are many course maps where someone can drop a smoke and delay map progress by blocking the view of other players. Whether it be in a maze like mg_adev, the rotating cobblestone after the TNT maze on mg_minecraft_course, or anywhere else that blocks view of a deadly area. It forces players to either sit around and wait for the smoke to disperse, or risk going through it and dying because they can't see. This is a form of griefing and I'm honestly unsure why it's allowed. Especially in the TNT maze of minecraft_course. If someone is in the maze, don't be impatient/rude and throw your smoke to blow it up with someone in it. Wait 5 seconds for them to get through it, then throw it. Intentionally killing people is toxic and has made people leave the server before, including myself. Nobody wants to progress in the map just to be killed by some troll with a smoke. It's not fun and I would think as a community we would want our players to enjoy their experience on our servers. Not intentionally trolling our players. If it's between friends just messing around, that's one thing. But when there are people on the server that you don't know, or that specifically don't want to deal with the toxicity? Don't do it.
Obviously I can't make anyone change this rule to prevent griefing, but I would genuinely like to discuss it. It's detrimental to our players and the server. Is that really worth a couple of trolls getting their thrills? Is it really necessary to allow using smokes to intentionally delay the map/kill players? If that's the case, why can't I intentionally slay people just for the fun of it? It's essentially the same thing. Intentionally killing someone is intentionally killing someone. Yet it's allowed with nades but not !slay. I get that it's a bit of an ignorant comparison, but it works. The point is the same. The result is the same. People are dying unwillingly because of some other person stroking their ego. I want to reiterate that this isn't just about minecraft_course and that there are spots in pretty much every map that can be smoked and cause delay/death. I also want to specify that I am not by any means requesting smokes be taken out, but to simply adjust the rule to where it's not allowed to use them to grief other players.
Please discuss seriously. I am not pointing fingers in this post. I am not looking to cause drama. I am looking to maturely discuss a rule. Thank you.