Blind Invites

[Nexx]

Ever get spammed with blind invites? I'm sure all of us have encountered the infamous blind invite atleast once in the game. How about when you click the 'Decline' button and they continuously spam you with blind invites? Or when the person sends you a blind invite then proceeds to ask you "want to do such&such quest?" you kindly decline, then get a tell back calling you an aweful name.

How do you handle yourself in this situation? Do you keep your cool, /squelch the person, and move on? Or do you respond back with @#%$@%!% and continue on with a pointless fight? Perhaps the person persists and you finally have to open up a harassment ticket.

Let's hear what our community members have to say about this...

[uhgungawa]

I don't waste my time with them. With either nasty tells or spam invites I just sent a harassment ticket and send them a tell "Reported, have a nice day =)"

[katana_one]

If it becomes a problem, I go into UI and turn off "accept party invites" and forget about it. Some characters get more blind invites than others, so sometimes I just leave party invites turned off all the time. Not a big deal at all to me.

I've yet to run into anyone sending rude /tells or doing anything that warranted a harassment report. Heck, I've never /squelched anyone either, even though there was one time I thought about it really hard.

Very little in this game worth getting bent out of shape over.

[Gkar]

If it becomes a problem, I go into UI and turn off "accept party invites" and forget about it. Some characters get more blind invites than others, so sometimes I just leave party invites turned off all the time. Not a big deal at all to me..

That stops my friends and guildies from inviting me, and thus hampers my gameplay. It would be much better is people simply didn't do these harrassing blind invites.

[Zippo]

That stops my friends and guildies from inviting me, and thus hampers my gameplay. It would be much better is people simply didn't do these harrassing blind invites.

This is the real answer right here, sadly I think the rude people are outnumbering the send a tell first crowd anymore

[Strik3r]

i get blind once in a while...i jus decline them, or if i get a tell i jus say sry cant help.....

the funniest thing is when im on my lvl 5 cleric who is parked in amrath as a packmule...and many times when i log on him to manage my stuffs, i get blind invites, i jus hit decline and dont even bother to reply....my bro and me were joking that i should accept and go to quest and ask.k im here now wat?...since i dont have any pots/wands/very low sp/in essence he is ultra gimped.

[katana_one]

That stops my friends and guildies from inviting me, and thus hampers my gameplay. It would be much better is people simply didn't do these harrassing blind invites.

So your friends and guildies blind invite you too?

It's not a perfect solution, I admit, but it works for me. Your friends can see that you're online, as opposed to being anonymous. It doesn't prevent you from joining LFMs, doesn't prevent you from starting your own group, and doesn't prevent you from sending invites. Your friends and guildies probably send you a /tell before the invite, so you can turn it back on when it's time to group up.

It all comes down to which bothers you more: the blind invites themselves or messing with the UI toggle to turn them off/on (I think it's 3 mouse clicks)?

[cdemeritt]

So your friends and guildies blind invite you too?

It's not a perfect solution, I admit, but it works for me. Your friends can see that you're online, as opposed to being anonymous. It doesn't prevent you from joining LFMs, doesn't prevent you from starting your own group, and doesn't prevent you from sending invites. Your friends and guildies probably send you a /tell before the invite, so you can turn it back on when it's time to group up.

It all comes down to which bothers you more: the blind invites themselves or messing with the UI toggle to turn them off/on (I think it's 3 mouse clicks)?

However, it does block your name when you join an LFM, and many people won't accept a "Annon" person. And again, why should I have to do more work to stop something that is caused by other players.

The old Annon system worked much better, it simply took my name off the list, and nothing else... I'll never get why they changed that.


Edit: I've noticed almost everyone who seems to think "Blind invites are ok" has their forum rep turned off.... I wonder....


Simple: Do Not Send Blind Invites....

[Gkar]

So your friends and guildies blind invite you too?

Yes, they do. And I'll accept because I log on to play with them so whatever they are doing I'm up for most of the time.

Plus people say "who is up for <whateverquest>?" in guild chat and when you say "me", they send you and invite.

Having to fiddle with your settings every time you want to accept an invite is stupid.

[Ssmooth]

I love blind invites. I take them all and run every quest I get blind invited to. My favorite blind invites are from characters level's 1-3 when I'm on one of my capped toon and the start with something like, "Hey!".

That is all.

[Ryiah]

So far I've been lucky. Half the blind invites I've been getting were timed so that I was zoning in/out of an area and it automatically got declined. Not sure how the noobs are quite managing that one but it sure saves me the trouble of clicking "No".

[jwdaniels]

One of these days though I'm going to be in a bad mood, accept the invite, and probably yell at them for a couple minutes about how a level 20 isn't able to run with a level 1-3 and powerlevel them.

Or run them through a great exp quest, wasting their first time bonus, and then yell at them for a couple minutes about how a level 20 isn't able to powerlevel them.

[Iaga]

Accept them, jump into an explorer area and ignore them.

[agent00skid]

Depends on my plans, if I'm not sure what I want to do, blind invites can be quite funny, even more so, because I'm not good at getting into parties in other ways.

[Sweyn]

First blind invite i decline, if they send another one I squelch them.

[Nexx]

First blind invite i decline, if they send another one I squelch them.

What if they send you another one? I didn't think squelching the person deters them from resending an invite.

[Sweyn]

What if they send you another one? I didn't think squelching the person deters them from resending an invite.

If someone who is on your squelch list sends you an invite, it is automatically declined and you won't even know if they sent you one, much like if they click on your lfm it will automaically decline them, without anything being sent to you.

It's an awesome tool.

[kalkyrie]

Accept them, jump into an explorer area and ignore them.

Simple, effective and funny.

[junior_w]

They go to my ignore list or I accept the invitation and dont spend any resources on them

[ragingfungus]

I usually accept the invite say something very silly and then leave lol.
The worst one I had was I accepted then the party leader said sorry you are too low of a level for the quest and then kicked me. I was like *** did he not see my char stats when he was inviting?