Sure I'll just drop what I'm doing....

Just say: no!

I once got yelled at by someone because I refused to ditch my guildy and leave the quest instance I was in the middle of to help them with a heroic quest. I wasn't even level 55 so it was obvious I was busy levelling, and they knew I was with a guildy, and was really polite in my declines. I told them No quite a number of times but they kept whispering me for a good 15-30 mins (I was considering ignoring them but naively thought each time I declined that they would finally leave me alone since there were gaps between when they contacted me).

I was talking to my guildy over vent and he ended up sending them a message to leave me alone, so they yelled and swore at me and called me greedy and selfish (for wanting to play a game I pay for?) I regret not calling their behaviour out on general chat so others would avoid them. I did report them for swearing etc at me though, so I hope they got a temp ban or something for it - their response was ridiculously over the top considering how polite I was with them.

On the other hand, I was riding along to a quest on a slightly lower level planet last weekend because of a companion quest, and someone whispered me asking for help killing a mob. I asked them where they were, and they said I drove right past it. I backtracked a little and they invited me to group, and I helped them kill a gold. It was easy and only took what, 5 minutes out of my day? They said thanks, I said take care, all was good.

I've had both good and bad experiences with random people whispering me, but after that psycho who harrassed me I'm pretty hesitant about talking to others and will be much quicker to add them to the ignore list if they don't leave me alone.

I'll usually decline a random invite from nowhere out of hand, but the person I mentioned didn't send an invite, they just whispered....and specifically whispered me asking me to powerlevel them.

I don't mind helping a person out if they're having a tough time on a mission. Well, with the exception of freaking starter planets. I've even told players with underpowered equipment that I'll send them a new hilt or barrel, or what have you. It may come from a different character, depending which alt I'm on, but it'll help.

I don't even mind the "Hey, can you help me beat this mob real fast?" whisper every so often. But yeah, I hate the "Can you stop whatever you're doing and follow me around killing things so I can level fast without doing anything" mindset. ....on Korriban for Pity's sake.

Yeah, that's what HK-51 is for!

I was bored one night on my Jugg so I decided to help some new players blaze through Black Talon so they could get better gear and we both could get boosts to our social score.

After a few quick runs, I am forming up a new group of level 10-12's and literally get chewed out by a level 10 who refuses to join our group because I will destroy his exp. I tried to explain it will be over so fast and he can maybe get better gear than on the starter planet plus up his social. To no avail. He accused me to showing off to new players and threatened to log his level 50 on and show me up.

I was boggled. Needless to say when we finished the run he was still at the enterance looking for a group. Some people.

I never accept blind group invites, I mean half the time I cant see the person who has sent it. Usually its sent over the search function on the planet that I RP on, and it irritates me a lot, however saying that I do usually help people if Im not doing anything important, may be a couple of flashpoint runs so lower folks can get the dropps etc, although not once have I got anyone being appreciative for me helping them.... That doesnt mean I wont stop helping people, its just that everything you do for someone is taken for granted or ends up being cussed at for not doing it the way they wanted.

On a side note Ive got plenty of credit whispers, luckily not in the millions but as little as 10k and I just state that is very easy to get that amount in a short space of time. You can guess what happens lol

Personally I think it depends. When I started on my bounty hunter I was in one of the Alderaan heroics +4. When we reached the end my character hadn't completed all the achievements to complete the quest. Two of the players left, and the other realised I had not completed, I told him not too bother and I would do later or something. Fair do's to the bloke he logged off came back with his level 50 assassin, blatted all the mobs so I could finish that heroic, and left.

You know what I would do the same for the next, I wont power level people, but spreading some friendliness around is surely the point of a social game?

I think any level 55 on lowbie planets gets these random shouts and whispers for help. But I have found out that telling these players about Heroic Moment -ability works lot of times. They usually are oblivious about it.

"/r No thanks." That's all it takes. Or just ignore them and go about your business. Why make an issue of it?

About week ago I was standing at the GTN when I got a whisper from one of the guys next to me. I won't say his name, obviously, but he was a marauder who I have seen in warzones for as long as I can remember, having been here since early access, and I knew he wasn't a moron. He was asking to borrow 100k credits because he was short for something he wanted on the GTN, and he said he'd mail it back in a few days. Because it was just 100k, and I trusted him, I gave it to him. Haven't received it back. It's only 100k and I made it back pretty quickly, but I know this guy isn't stupid so that just means he's a jerk.

Little does he know I'm charging interest; just wait until he gets the bill