Wow, reading all your guys talking about your shards makes me kinda grateful to be on an overly friendly shard.
Last time I counted we have over 100 active players listed on our Discord Arena chat. Accidental drops do happen daily, but usually people apologize for the mistakes done and nobody makes a fuss about it (we also have a bot to record every change in the ranking, so no one can get away with sniping). Players with GLs usually drop their mods or change teams after their PO. And people who have the same PO coordinate to take turns for the ranking. And we welcome new players as soon as they make it to the top 50 by themselves.
I think this shall be the way. No need to make other players life miserable. But looks like that is not the case everywhere.