Apologies I was going to post on the forum, but I've got limited time at the moment, I'm traveling and I only have access to the internet for small slices of time. I should have pre-announced it, So people could see why.
A few days ago I remove a player that asked in a very rude way to be let out of the squad. He could have left himself, it's a simple process, there is no notification when someone leaves the squad.
Last night, in line is the policy I described a a while back, I removed low rank players that hadn't played in 3+ months(I track this in a spreadsheet I'm about half way through the list). mostly rank 5-7 players who probably played until the free trial ran out, then stopped or started a new account. Most of those dropped hadn't played since the the very start of October.
Players that are higher rank don't get removed unless they ask, or are repeat offenders on the blacklist (only happened once so far), or haven't played for 6 months or more. All players are welcome back should the return to the game.
I know it looks messy in the squad chat, there's no other way to do it. If i leave them in the squad list is full of many non-active accounts (we have over 150 members now).
The other option is that we restrict entry to those rank 8 or 9 and above. Usually by then they have purchased the game, and have some commitment to play longer. It does remove the squad presence from the low rank servers