Quote Originally Posted by elemental10 View Post

In order to remedy that, I just put a notification sound for Party chat, the same as when someone PM you.

I would like to suggest to SE to put a notification sound for party chat as default, so people actually notice it.
That's was one of the first things I did when I started playing. Nobody told me about it but I wanted a way to be alerted to something appearing in party chat - after all, 99% of the time it's important. I also always greet everyone, ask who is new (if it appears) and congratulate on a finished run. It doesn't cost anything, I'm not paying by the second or byte sent. You wouldn't enter a meeting with three other new people and all just sit silently until it ends!