It amuses me that some people have a hangup over this. It would never occur to me to be ashamed of inspecting someone else's character, or of being inspected myself. Most, if not all, seem to pick their names and gear for attention, so why would they pretend to be shy about getting inspected?

An inspection notification would be annoying, but only because I hate emote spam (turned off my own, right along with background music, shortly after I started playing).