I have thought about this a lot and been victim to people telling me "we'd love to commend you but the 3 of us are in a group together and can't"

I think that the pre-made should have a vote to commend the solo pug, a vote which needs to be unanimous. In the very least that will allow the occasional commendation to slip through to the random player, who, like me, enjoys getting them. The system is great as it is, aside from that small detail. I can throw a commendation out to them, but get none in return? I can do the math, and this scale isn't heavily one sided, actually - but it does seriously dampen the chances of anyone getting commendations by entering a duty with a party. Especially if two parties of 2 enter the duty, bothpugs, where nobody can issue commendations.

What if they added server restrictions to it? Or adjusted the rules somehow to avoid abuse? I don't know the answer, but the current system feels.....awkward.