Guild Wars 2

To my knowledge and previous experience of mmos you cannot get banned for kicking a party member for pretty much any reason. After all it is up to the players whom they wish to group with.
Does this hold true for GW2 ? I am genuinely interested in the answer.

I am being told that kicking is a form of griefing and you can get temporarily banned for it. I don’t believe that is true so could someone clarify this for me please.

Not interested in opinions on the subject. I simply want to know if you can get banned for kicking a part member.

If you kick someone during the last few minutes or last parts before the chest or bonus for no apparent reason, yes it is bannable. If your friends feel like one person is a kitten, you can kick that person whenever you want to.

If you display a pattern of kicking group mates before the final chest in order to grief them or especially to bring in guildies or friends then you can be punished.

OK thanks for the clarification. So basically kicking at the end of a run would edge over into griefing I guess. Makes sense.