Agree with the whole people shouting for an invite. Those people can fall off a pier when the tide is out.

Shouting conversations I can just kind of ignore them and be fine...except for certain types of shouts I see sometimes. Basically just 'drama' shouts. You know, * is such a * etc. (admittedly this doesn't happen often) or people whining about the community in shouts. Yes it is annoying that no one is using the search feature, that said does anyone really think insulting the community saying stuff like "they ask for search feature then don't use it because it isn't identical to FFXI's" helps? Anyways to me the two sort of merge into one group of "I want some attention".

Note this is in-game shout, whine as much as you want on the forums that's what they're there for.