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Warning, /tell rant!:
Gotta disagree on /tells. I'm a team leader, not a salesman. If you join me, great. If not, forget you. I'm not gong to sit there and try to sell you on my team or my mission. Those with "/tell first" in their search description are letting you know they are high maintenance and will likely be a pain to one degree or another. I've even had some of these /tellies try to make me justify why they should grace my team with their esteemed presence. At that point, I just tell them I can do without them.
Best reason of all, why should I bother with /tellies when there are so many people who don't care about that pointless gesture? And it is a pointless gesture, it accomplishes nothing more than stroking the ego of the /tellie. 99% of the in game population couldn't care less about this idiosyncrocy.
And thank Statesman for small favors!
Rant over!
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Yesterday I was invited to a team (Blind Invite)
I joined team, and went to the mission door to wait for the rest of the team before going in.
A few minutes goes by, and I was kicked from the team. No explanation was given.
90% of the Blind Invites i've recieved have been like this. Which is why I mostly decline them, and put "no blind invites" in my search text.
Most of the time, if someone takes the time to at least say "Hey, I'm about to send you an invite to a team OK" then it's probably an ok team and not a bunch of children. Unless I'm about to log off, or they're doing a TF that I simply don't have time for, I'll go for a mission and see if I like the team and the team likes me. I think it's more fun to just go do a mission with a team if the first impressions are good. (rather than discussing at length details about the team)
I look for red flags,
- if someone cannot or refuses to spell (i.e. "u" / "you")
- blind invites
- char name being leetspeak or all caps
- if it's a Stalker AT (just kiddin

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I have certain standards I try to adhere to, so I can have fun. There's nothing wrong with using "u", or leetspeak, or all caps names, or even blind invites. They're just not the way I like to enjoy the game. My standards don't mean I'm better than the next person, they are simply boundaries I've set for myself to avoid situations that do not interest me.