Quote Originally Posted by Angus View Post
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.
Then, you just got to roll it off and let it go. Basically, the "don't let one rotten apple spoil the bunch". It's bad enough that most people are afraid to give out advice towards newbies simply because of cases where we've gotten our heads bitten off for it and that should never be the case when someone is trying to be helpful and polite.