I'd like if mines got removed ~15 sec after whoever put them left the server.
Just today we had a guy mining really bad and before he did anything about it, he just left and we were stuck with a good 10 useless mines.
I think that's a very bad idea. Then we have a lot of people just throwing out a mine here and there that aren't actually dedicating themselves to be the tech/hottie character, by buying it.
What's elitist about trying to tell people how to play efficiently?
I have yet to see anybody get kicked just for being a bad miner.
If anything, people try to contact them FREQUENTLY in chat, but those people just don't listen. And quite frankly, people that don't listen... well, it's their own fault if they kicked, no matter the reason (abusing, bad mining, cheating etc.). The admins and mods on TmX and EKT servers are really nice to people that, well, screw up.
And I personally prefer people telling me when I do something stupid in games. I've always listened to older players in online games, because that actually makes sense.