How to give advice

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I'll give you that maybe they thought they weren't rude, but it didn't come off that way in a text based chat. They also continued to made rude gestures at the end. If I had known this person, then I might have thought they were just being casual, but they were a stranger. We were in a combat situation. People need to be more careful when communicating in a text based system.

I've been in parties where players gave advice in a friendly constructive manner, THIS wasn't one of them.

I agree with you that advice should be given in a polite, friendly and constructive manner.
That does not involve asking for permission to give advice in the first place for me though.

You should also keep in mind that not everyone speaks english as a native language, so sometimes things might sound weird or even rude to you, when they werent intended that way. A major contributor to that is also the "we were in combat" thing. When I'm in combat, I dont have the time to type a long wided novel with a lot of "please and thank you" to get a simple point like "Thunder IV is an AoE-spell, please use Thunder III on a single target instead" across.