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Happens to me al the time on NIN/RNG. I specifically state that I cannot tank in my search message, yet I'm expected to tank in 9/10 parties I'm invited to.

Most people outright ignore search comments, seriously. I could put some demeaning, angry comment in my search comment along the lines of something like "Your mother's a who[i][/i]re and she gets anally raped by wombats every time you send an invite to somebody that doesn't want to party" and I'd still get invites.

How hard is it to hit enter one more time after selecting somebody's name, really? We take the time to write them so we can actually have good parties. The least you could do is take the time to read them.

I forget the name of that RDM, but if that WAR that was invited to that party was Vachir, /wave, that was our static. Yeah we tried invited that RDM before and s/he said "yes" initially but then she apparently got an invite from someone else and said "sry I dont want to join u anymore." Then Vachir gets invited to the party s/he's in and there's no room for me and our other member and that's almost exactly what s/he said. Wish I remembered the name. Jojo something maybe. Well the only Jojo showing up on search is Jojokage and Elvaan but I thought it was a Taru. Well that was a long time ago.

Anyways.



Now this is what I really handsdown agree with. And it gets to the point where I start saying to myself, "If they can't read a comment, it's not a person I want to party with." But then I end up waiting another 2 or so hours for a party and get mad. :p

I think what frustrates me most is the fact that our static is post 50 and they STILL can't freaking read the comments. I even got asked to join a party as WHM when I said (|I'm playing solo right now.|) (|Party|) (|No thanks.|) in my comment. I would've thought that was sufficient but no, no fewer than 4 people asked (and there were two other freaking WHMs anyways).

Grr?

Edited, Fri Mar 4 21:10:56 2005 by seraphimhunter

Oh ho ho boy. Thanks for making this post, Seraphim.

This is, without a shadow of a doubt, my #1 pet peeve...

Even though you already quoted it, I'll quote Alauce again:



Exactly.

We all know how macros work. You go to the spell/ability you'd like to use, select it and press enter.

Ya see that green dot that's next to my name? Yea, that means I have a search comment. Now go down to my name and hit Enter. Good!

It's no harder than using a macro, people, try it some time.

I used this example in the "Things That Suck" Thread awhile back but I'll use it again.

I was in Yuhtunga a few months ago lvling RNG. Probably around lvl 23-24 at the time. I had something like 500 tnl, so in my comment I put "@500" like everyone else does with their tnl. So I get an invite and everyone in the PT is a lvl lower than me. "Hmm kinda fishy", I think to myself but whatever.

So we kill a few gobs and I lvl.

Leader: o, ur too high for us now, ur gonna have to leave
Me: It said in my comment that I was 500tnl...
Leader: o sorry i didn't see it

Now just because this *** couldn't hit enter one more time and actually read that I was @500, I just wasted a good 15-20 minutes that I could have been in a PT that actually went somewhere. But no, I'm out on my *** again.

The BLM got a little pissed at the leader too and told him I was a good RNG. He even sent me a /flist invite and he's still on my list today.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here but I had a bad day at work and seeing this topic and the chance to release my frustration was nice and therapeutic to me ^^.

I was also looking for a PT last night and I got a /tell from a 40 BRD:

BRD: [Hello!] BCNM40 {Do you need it?]
Me: [No thanks.] {Experience points.]
BRD: [Understood.]
Me: [I'm sorry.] [Thank you!]

Now this I really don't mind at all. I'm a RNG, so the occasional BCNM invite really doesn't bother me at all. The BRD saw that even though I wanted an xp PT, I may have been tired of looking for one and agreed to do the BCNM with him. Totally acceptable.

In closing I'd like to say that I read people comments all the time when I'm lfp, just for the hell of it. Maybe I can get a good idea from one of them for my own comment. It helps pass the time and some are kinda amusing.

Ok, rant over.

P.S. I rated you all up, to counter-act the trollage and for sharing the same views as me ^^.

yes, people rarely ever read those damned comments. Sometimes you shouldn't even have to. If you see a blm/thf in pashow without a flag, do you really need to ask him if he wants to pt? Now if you see that yellow dot next to his name, that should make it even more obvious. If you clicked his name and hit the tell button, you obviously saw that he's farming. SO STOP DOING IT.

For a week my comment said that I needed to get G-1 done and that I was a lv50 exp cap. Wouldn't you know it, it's the ONLY TIME EVER that I get invites without my flag being up. Now that I've had it done for a week, I've only been in three pts and 2 of them actually LOST exp for me.



Mine almost always says:
@xxxx (to exact numbers, btw.)
DEX+23 AGI+18 - acc+45
{Japanese}/{English} {Party} OK

Keep in mind I add food into my stats.

I guess I'm one of the few who read them O.o
First thing I do before /tell someone is to make sure i read what they put up.

To me its just plain rude not to.