pls advise me with good reasons

[Len Darker]

Serves em right.

Well, luckily, death in a game is not real, so they actually might learn a lesson. It is much more likely, though, that they'll simply hate you for it, or are too dense (and used to hot tps) to even notice it was a deliberate move, and not just stupidity on your part.

I've taken a break from my playing, but I was a fellow HC pubbie player for a very long time. In the begining I invited anyone who asked for a party, even if impolitely.

With me, this is mostly a thing of what mood I am in. Usually, I am fairly patient and less restrictive. I also still prefer playing public games over passworded games, unless I wish to play solo, or for specific things, like doing a certain quest in peace.

I will usually not go so far as to avoid playing in parties, even if there is a suspicious character around. What I do is stay a few steps away from those, and generally try to warn the other players of my suspicion when I get suspicious enough to warrant that.

I join Baal run games, but play solo in them. Less frustration.

In that case, maybe the better option is to find a game with a party in acts one to four. I know, it usually forfeits the purpos of an "act 1 quests" game if you join and hack away in act five, but a quick, polite question to the other players in the game can eradicate all doubt whether you are welcome (for the extra experience they also gain for another player in the game), or if you aren't (because a friend of theirs can't join because you filled up the last player slot, and the game is full).

It also shows you what kinds of players you are dealing with, and whether you will actually want to stay around this company.

More often than not, you will still get a polite response to a polite question. Even in public games. "Us public players" aren't all immature. Some of us can think, and even talk, and some of us can even talk in "proper English" (which is not my native language, so if parts of what I am saying here are ambiguous, please ask me to clarify).

If someone fills my screen with "pp", I simply hit the N key. I like to be able to read everyone's inane babbling in the games, just in case they tip me off to a new hack or PK method(so I can avoid it), but I don't want my screen filled with garbage. The N key clears everything up nicely for me.

Sometimes, I find it hard to endure some particularly obnoxious individual. I then go about squelching them. If I feel like it, I'll accompany that by a swift "squelched." char message.

So at least they know I am not listening anymore. As a side note, it sometimes occurs that this chat message of mine is soon followed by "<Annoying person> left the game."

So, you see, even in a very limited environment like battle.net, it is still possible to utilize several means of subtle diplomacy that lie somewhere between ignorance and murder. :-)