As far as I know, the same anti-griefing measures are still in game. I'm looking into that. Regardless, I'd love to see a better way to handle these players since it's still really easy to troll.
I'm not saying don't play that mode. I'm just saying your chances of getting a better experience are when you play club games as a drop-in player. I wish we had a filter that would let you only join those games. A vote kick is definitely a tricky one to get perfect. Which, we'd need to do otherwise people would be getting unfairly kicked.