Have you read the forums???? By your appearance here I'm going to assume that you have. Can you imagine the forums in game voice chat. It would be a nightmare.

Luckily the public voice chat would basically have an "on/off" switch. They've already been talking about it at Bungie so you don't NEED to join a fireteam in order to have voice chat with others. Until that happens, I think matchmaking in the IB is pointless if you can't join fireteams with friends every time you personally want to run some IB. And God knows when they will actually add that option in, which is why I think it would be a little more incentive to stay in if we still got 5 rep for losing.

I really don't want to have to stop every 5 mins and mute some random player whose being a jerk. The only way it could work is if everyone was muted and you could unmute certain players. Maybe another option is if someone gets muted by one player they are muted by all other players in the area automatically and then they would have to unmute them to hear them. Maybe an icon that shows that the person is trying to talk to you and you could then unmute them to hear what they have to say. Maybe allow voice chat whenever you have another guardian selected with a quick button to unmute them if they prove to be intelligible. Anything but just turning the forums into the public voice chat. Let the hardcore players have one event. Casual players can have all the other events. Leave Iron Banner alone.