if you want to invite me to party, ASK ME first.

This is something I have noticed too! I almost ALWAYS whisper the person who blind invited me with, "Hi there. Whatcha need?" or some variant, before I will consider accepting the invite. After all, it wouldn't help to group unless we both needed the same thing, would it?

As a general rule, the person won't answer me...AT ALL. It's almost like they are WILLFULLY refusing to answer my question until I accept their ninja-invite.

I really don't get it.

People defending this practice say that those of us who are ENDEAVORING to communicate are the ones that are anti-social for not accepting random party invites!

It's highly illogical to me, but it only makes me want to hear more from people about it.

If I'm in the middle of combat when you invite me, you're getting turned down and /ignored. I'm busy. Wait until after or deal with it.

I can definitely state that if I send out a ninja request and get a tell asking me why I will respond every time.

Multitasking is too hard

Just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents even if its already been said before; its simply to add to the point that...Blind Invites are sometimes under some circumstances annoying.

1. Blind Invites when we're both hunting the same mob and its the only mob that counts aren't bad infact I dont mind them at all. Its nice if someone asks but I'll still take them since it works out well for all players involved.

2. Blind Invites are incredibly annoying when I'm in the middle of a battle or simply just surfing about (traveling). Suddenly your enjoying a ride through an area looking for craft nodes or just to get somewhere boom pop up in your face for god knows what. Even worse is if I'm in a battle and I'm try not to die.

3. Blind Invites when I'm simply sitting at the mail box because someone sees I'm a Tank and they need a tank is annoying. I won't accept them. Mos toften I'm at the mail box waiting on something, sending something to an alt or maybe I just logged in and its where i left off.

It just seems if you want to be Social and Group you'd be Social and take 10 - 15 seconsd to go "Hey we're hunting X or doing X flash point we could use you would you like to come" or even shorter if your to inept to type. I don't expect every single person to adhere to basic MMO etiquette, just as that person should not expect me to care and or answer their harrassment when they question or insult me because I hit no.

I refuse random invites most often because
A. you were being unsocial or rude by interrupting a fight you can clearly see I'm in
B. Maybe I'm not interested in doing whatever it is your doing
C. I'm likely waiting on a friend to log in so we can go and do something without you.
D. I'm already done questing there and I'm simply heading back to the NPC's to turn the quest in.

Several of these would quickly be answered if the person took afew seconds to ask. You dont go to a bar and simply grab someone and force them to dance and not get pissed off do you? No because that would likely get you punched or kicked out. (Wandering up to people and simply dancing next to them when they're dancing doesn't count in this example).

How on god's green earth is this thread 41 pages long...?

It should have the subtitle "I'm uptight about minor things."

I agree in general with the OP (but also agree with the person who posted the situational/'it depends' approach). Actually though, in some ways what gets me more are people who actually do try to communicate, but do it via /say instead of a tell/whisper, and then in some cases get cheesed off and send a rude tell followup or make rude gestures at you when you had no idea they were trying to communicate in the first place.

Most people I know rarely pay attention to either General or /say unless they pointedly need to do so, as they've setup custom chat tabs to cater to isolate guild or party communication and cut out the public spam stuff. If someone sends me a tell, I'll always see it and almost always respond unless its a spammer or someone being rude, but I almost never catch something said in /say.