"Content Finder" - Please be careful

[Frein]

The obvious fallacy in this is that dicks exist with or without automated cross-server LFG. It's really only a convenient scapegoat for a bad community. In FFXI, supposedly the most mature and lovely community ever, people would get tossed out of groups for wearing gear that wasn't "optimal." People didn't get invites because of the job they chose to play. JP players would literally tell NA players, "JP only" despite there being a completely serviceable translator. People jacked items regularly. Most of the bad behavior in an MMO has nothing to do with a system like the Content Finder.

Yeah, I think you should get kicked out of a group if you decide it's ok that everyone else has to carry your poorly geared ass. Showing up to a group as a DD with no haubergeon was a no no, but I don't think that's unreasonable at all considering everyone else went through the trouble of getting one. Sure, it was expensive but not prohibitively so like many other items that people (surprise) didn't expect you to have.

I want to know beforehand if you're gimp or not (or just a known douchebag/terribad), which is why I oppose any kind of automated group building.

The FFXI player search was almost perfect as it let you easily and quickly see potential group candidates and allowed said candidates to post information about themselves in order to attract group invites.