Quote Originally Posted by Naunet View Post
Can someone explain this? I've never encountered people averse to being inspected/inspecting other players outside of this game. o.0 Why do people get upset?
In FFXI, when you got inspected you would receive a "{Your name here} has just examined you." In the form of what resembled an emote. For people who did not use voice chat and conversed primarily in text form would get overwhelmed by the chat clutter of shouts, linkshells, tells, and examine messages.

Examine messages obviously being the least useful was annoying. Especially if you get examined multiple times by one person or in quick succession from multiple people.