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

Hi, everyone. I agree with what seems to be the general consensus here - It's generally rude to do a blind invite. The one exception is when a couple of people are obviously waiting for a particular quest target to respawn. I also generally turn down blind invites except when the person is there waiting for the mob I'm also after, because then the reason for the invite is obvious.

Another thing I really dislike is blind challenges to duels. I usually don't like duelling anyway (I have a short attention span, and I'm usually interested in something else), but a blind challenge without asking me first is an absolute guarantee that it will be turned down.

Go to page 1 and check it out. The OP says nothing at all about special situations. It simply says to not invite without messaging.

Regardless of what may have been said in the intervening time - the OP has not been altered and makes no exceptions.

He has a point. It's a little silly to expect people to read 30ish pages of posts to know what has or has not been said.

I've never declined a blind invite. Typing /invite $$$$$ and trying to spell your 14 character name right takes longer than for you to kill the mob we both need which would have completed both our bonuses giving us both 1500 exp. extra. It will only take you longer to level questing alone. With you obvious rebutlle that you're not trying to level quickly, sounds like you'd rather play a single player game, it'll certainly cost you less.

If you don't want to read more than 1 page then you probably shouldn't get involved in 38 page threads.

I forgot to mention an interesting feature they added to WoW, and I think it's only in the newer high-level zones. For specific single quest creatures, EVERYONE who is there and does at least one attack on it will get the quest credit, even if they aren't in a group and didn't make the first attack. This is a great feature, because you don't have to wait for respawns if someone else is there fighting the target when you get there. Of course, the person who scored the first hit on the target is still the only one who gets to loot it, but at least you get the quest credit. Perhaps SWTOR might consider adding that feature to certain quest mobs?

The ONLY time that I give blind invites or accept them is when I and another are waiting (OBVIOUSLY WAITING) for a named quest mob to appear at that one specific spot. To me thats just a courtesy so that neither I nor the other person has to wait 5-20 min for a respawn. Any place else I will decline any blind invite and would expect others to do the same to me if I ever did such a thing.

If a person blind invites me after I have declined them once already though I will send them a tell warning them to not do it again. If they do they get /ignored and if I'm feeling peevish I'll even report them for harrassment. (thankfully I don't get peevish too often.)

Guild invites are auto declined.

I just wish they had an auto-decline for duel invites. I'm on a pve server for a reason. If I wanted to pvp I'd go to the areas especially designed for em or a pvp server.

Thanks for posting this. I firmly believe that no one intends to be rude by extending a blind invite.

I repeat, a blind invite is NOT an intentional rudeness; it is almost always a case of not really understanding established rules of etiquette. And as we've been discussing, there are are exceptions where the blind invite is okay.

I don't fall into the camp of "If you blind-invite me I think you're an a-hole and you're automatically going on my ignore list". I usually only put people on my ignore list if they keep spamming the invite after I have already declined it once or twice. I find that to be intentionally rude behavior, but that's a different matter altogether.

There is so much anger in this thread from people who weren't aware of established etiquette and are now taking offense to the subject even being brought up in the first place. Do people have the right to reject established etiquette? Absolutely. But to do so and then blame other people for expecting established behavior just seems wrong to me.

In any case, warpedlogic, your post was awesome and very much appreciated.

- There is faster way to invite people to group.
- You can type 5 letters per second with practice.

People should be honored if I accept their invite to make THEIR game better with my awesomeness in the group.