Inviting players to the Novice Network

[Kohashi]

I don't understand the hate for invites, I much preferred them to tells. The invite is usually self explanatory,especially in the case of NN where it comes with an explanation popup, and if you don't want to participate you can just ignore it. It feels worse to ignore tell and just drags out the unwanted interaction. Plus trial accounts can't reply to tells anyway.

Same. I never understood people who lose their marbles over a popup, which you can also leave in a corner and ignore.

[Sacae]

Maybe just don't massively spam invites?

What I do is, when doing low level dungeons in roulette, I'll ask the sprouts if they'd like to join, and if they say yes, I'll send them an invite, or have someone else do it. I wouldn't ever go around spamming invites in the overworld, that's just spam.

[Nero-Voidstails]

it also depend on the NN réputation in itself some have bad other have great one and some are just plain horrible x).

some sprout research those other doesn't some NN will also often send guides over helping the person learn like so many reason but to hunt down someone it's just bad not gonna lie with you

[Valence]

Maybe just don't massively spam invites?

What I do is, when doing low level dungeons in roulette, I'll ask the sprouts if they'd like to join, and if they say yes, I'll send them an invite, or have someone else do it. I wouldn't ever go around spamming invites in the overworld, that's just spam.

If you don't spamm invites then it means some other mentors are doing most of the heavy lifting, unless your NN is absolutely empty.
Inviting as many as possible regularly is also how a NN stays healthy and active by bringing new blood and avoiding it festering with cliques and bad apples.

[Bellsong]

Eh, suck it up. Random invites are annoying and they don't stop being annoying just cause they're made with good intentions.

Report people being especially nasty and move on. The name is listed so people can blacklist chronic inviters if they wish to. (I'm just going to give SE the benefit of the doubt and assume that blocking stops NN invites)

[VerdeLuck]

Newbies should by default just be invited like returners as long as they have a full service account. I was never invited and had no clue the channel even existed until 1000+ hours in when I took a break and the game put me in after I got the returner tag.

[Valence]

Eh, suck it up. Random invites are annoying and they don't stop being annoying just cause they're made with good intentions.

Report people being especially nasty and move on. The name is listed so people can blacklist chronic inviters if they wish to. (I'm just going to give SE the benefit of the doubt and assume that blocking stops NN invites)

I generally tell people that don't want the annoyance anymore to turn off their sprout. NN invites are also blocked automatically after one or two refusals, but I think this resets after a little time, perhaps a day I'm not sure.
If it wasn't the players random inviting it would be the system itself automatically anyway with a popup asking the new players if they want to opt-in. No need to be offended by it, it's not like FC invites that are spammed all day long like all the ads one gets stuffed into their real life mailbox.

[Jeeqbit]

Newbies should by default just be invited like returners as long as they have a full service account. I was never invited and had no clue the channel even existed until 1000+ hours in when I took a break and the game put me in after I got the returner tag.

They were originally. Guess who got invited? RMT bots.

That is why it is now mentor's job to invite them and avoid inviting any obvious bots.

[BelegErkhten]

Sir, I just want you to be aware, you are not required to invite people to the NN, you do not need to invite people, you merely have the power to do so. You will not get punished for not inviting people unless a sprout is specifically asking YOU for an an invite and you refuse them, and even then absolutely nothing is gonna happen. Source: I am a Mentor on Multiple Characters

[Purrnauskis]

NN 99% of the time is either dead or its few attention seeking mentors jorking each other off so nothing of value was lost and would not be lost if they outright deleted it.