Pause and Think before Shouting

[Shosasosa]

whenever people shout asking for invites to parties or raids or whatever i just shout back saying "yea dont you see all the shouts for "said thing"??? i guess they all musta blisted u for shouting like a noob". most the time they quit shouting after that

[Majidah]

I'm happy people like the OP aren't from balmung.

People from besaid talk on /shout fairly often. They get on, wish everyone a nice day, ask whats going on, whatever.

If you'd rather have a ghost town just filter it all.

Also, many times things get rolling because you see there's people shouting to get invited. So doing so is also fair.

[Dragon]

I'm happy people like the OP aren't from balmung.

Yeah, thank 'god'.

[Vire]

Let this thread die please. The entire point of the OP is stupid, selfish and arrogant as other forum users have eloquently stated already. Just let it fade away to the bowels of page 2 or something please.

[indira]

its been said 1000 times, people need to start using the search function. that way you can chill and wait for a invite anywhere !!

[Istaro]

Hey look! A QQ thread that makes wow look like Game of the Year. Quit whining about shouts and go play a solo game, welcome to the internet, next.

[KyrsIsley]

I'm not even sure why I'm even posting this because I'm literally asking to be flamed, but really, I just wanted to understand what everyone thinks of this gripe I'm having. That and it probably won't change anything because it's something that's never going to go away as long as we're human.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to get across is pretty much what I've said in the title. The reason I'm saying this is because I just see so many shouts that's just... not well thought out.

One of the most common examples of this is Ul'dah shouts like:

34 job, please invite to exp PT.
or
Ifrit Bleeds, please invite me.

Now, let's think about those shouts for a moment. Unless a group just happens to be forming the precise moment you're shouting AND happen to be in range in hearing your shout, you're not going to get an invite. And do not expect strangers to help you make a party FOR you, because a.) you're a stranger and they don't have obligations to and b.) it's takes a lot of effort creating a full group of 6 others to help your single cause. You're better off making your own group instead.

It just annoys the heck out of me because those people are basically forfeiting the thought of trying to make their own group and hoping on the inane chance that someone will make the group for them. And it's usually these types of people who complain that the community is not being friendly. Guess what, it's not because people are not friendly, but it's because what you're asking is not exactly a 'small' favor as you might think.

On a related note, people need to stop using shouts as chat channels because it spams the chat log, and because of that I might miss a party shout I'm interesting in joining. The majority of us don't care what you have to say. Take it in tells. Why won't I just use blacklist, then? Because I don't want to blacklist people in case I happen to land on the same party as them at a later date and because I blacklisted them I might miss something important they might say.

It's called common courtesy people. Use it. Please.

lol, took you long enough :P
unfortunately, common courtesy isn't very common just like common sense.

[Bustercucumbers]

I'm not even sure why I'm even posting this because I'm literally asking to be flamed, but really, I just wanted to understand what everyone thinks of this gripe I'm having. That and it probably won't change anything because it's something that's never going to go away as long as we're human.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to get across is pretty much what I've said in the title. The reason I'm saying this is because I just see so many shouts that's just... not well thought out.

One of the most common examples of this is Ul'dah shouts like:

34 job, please invite to exp PT.
or
Ifrit Bleeds, please invite me.

Now, let's think about those shouts for a moment. Unless a group just happens to be forming the precise moment you're shouting AND happen to be in range in hearing your shout, you're not going to get an invite. And do not expect strangers to help you make a party FOR you, because a.) you're a stranger and they don't have obligations to and b.) it's takes a lot of effort creating a full group of 6 others to help your single cause. You're better off making your own group instead.

It just annoys the heck out of me because those people are basically forfeiting the thought of trying to make their own group and hoping on the inane chance that someone will make the group for them. And it's usually these types of people who complain that the community is not being friendly. Guess what, it's not because people are not friendly, but it's because what you're asking is not exactly a 'small' favor as you might think.

On a related note, people need to stop using shouts as chat channels because it spams the chat log, and because of that I might miss a party shout I'm interesting in joining. The majority of us don't care what you have to say. Take it in tells. Why won't I just use blacklist, then? Because I don't want to blacklist people in case I happen to land on the same party as them at a later date and because I blacklisted them I might miss something important they might say.

It's called common courtesy people. Use it. Please.

So you stand in the middle of Uldah looking for a quiet place? Sorry, but Uldah is the main city, and being so, it is the main market of the game. People go there to buy/sell items and start/look for groups. I'm sorry if that is somehow hurting your quiet time. Go into the halls of flame next time, or better yet go to the other 2 cities. I can guarantee you will get all the nice shout free quiet time you can handle over there. Seriously this game really has no content at all I guess, because we have idiots filling the forums with retarded posts like these.

[Forbin]

and when no one invites them they begin crying about, "It takes to long to get an invite! GAH THIS IS LIKE FFXI ALL OVER AGAIN!"

[Chardrizard]

Stay inside an inn. I am glad JP timezone communities in gungnir fully utilize recruitment search. Not annoyed at shout spam + still easy to get into pick up groups = win.