Originally Posted by [AGB]Quasae

I have seen a few people doing this exact thing but what I see WAY more of is the 'whack-a-mole kneel bobber'. People in close quarters combat that repeatedly go from standing to kneeling back to standing. To me this is just manipulating the hit boxes same as bunnyhopping. I have also seen one or two TG'ers that do a mix of all three while in combat, stand-kneel-prone over and over again.

There is no way to objectively enforce a no kneel-standing rule.

Most people go to a knee to improve accuracy at the sacrifice of mobility, they then stand and sacrifice accuracy to improve mobility. This results in kneel -standing quite a bit. I think going to and from a knee for this intention is acceptable play on TG.

Some will go from a full sprint to a crouch to slow down and improve situational awareness. This is also fine by any TG standard.

Many will bob up and down from behind cover in an effort to avoid long range fire. In stalemates these can be an enjoyable cat and mouse game through the scope of a sniper or assault rifle. I have no problem with this.

I think ducking to avoid fire is a natural response. Repeatedly ducking often happens for legitimate reasons. even if someone is ducking to make it difficult to hit them, that seems fine to me. It is a difficult perceptual task to judge the intent of the ducker. If the intent of ducking is to avoid fire, then why is that a problem? At some level, we do all sorts of stuff to avoid fire. Bunnyhopping is the one thing that seems to have no real legitimate place on an infantry battlefield for simulation AND balance reasons.