Fwiw, the only person I've personally played with who was both high-ranking and hid their FFlogs is now banned from fflogs for exploiting.

Anyway, the OP mentions alphascape savage, which one was it? Was it a full-PF, or was it mostly a static (who might've had a member log on, so they kicked the pub)?

If you can't get any groups at all and it's pretty low-level (o9s or o10s) try making a PF and calling it a trap party (or looking for them), some people (meme-seekers) join em with low expectations and even if they do fail a lot, hey there are trap parties that work out sometimes too. At least if people see you as a bad player (or whatever reason you're getting kicked for), you probably won't be immediately kicked from something calling itself a trap party.